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March 2, 2010artificial intelligence, austrian economics, behaviorism, brain science, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, connectionism, consciousness, constructivism, cybernetics, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, Enacted, enactivism, epistemology, evolutionary psychology, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, functionalism, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, hayek machine, hermeneutics, Inevitability Thesis, intentionality, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, Mass Collaboration, metaphysics, mind body, networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, psychology, qualia, rationality, representationalism, Road to Serfdom, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Hayek: Cognitive scientist Avant la Lettre

My published article is now available from here. Check out the full table of contents for this volume.

February 24, 2010Andries Engelbrecht, artificial intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Jim Kennedy, networks, particle swarm optimization, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO)

Check out the Editorial (and of course the full issue) for the special issue on Particle Swarm Optimization from the new journal Swarm Intelligence. This issue is edited by two of the most prominent luminaries in the field – Andries Engelbrecht and Jim Kennedy. The former is the author of Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence; the latter,…

February 9, 2010ants, cognitive closure, cognitive systems, collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, national geographic, robotics, robots, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, wasps

Swarm Theory

Here is an article (admittedly a few years old) and some accompanying photographs from National Geographic.

January 28, 2010collaboration, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, sociocognition, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, tim kahl, wiki, Wikipedia

“Stigmergy” Enters the Poetic Imagination

Poet Tim Kahl reads a poem of his entitled “Stigmergy.”

January 9, 2010Andy Clark, ants, austrian economics, behaviorism, Bounds of Cognition, brain, brain science, bruce caldwell, Chalmers, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive ecology, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Colin McGinn, complexity, computational intelligence, concept of mind, consciousness, david chalmers, Dennett, Descartes, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, dualism, Economics, Edelman, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, evolutionary psychology, explanation, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, frame problem, frank rosenblatt, functionalism, Fuster, gerald edelman, Gilbert Ryle, hayek, Inevitability Thesis, intentionality, joaquin fuster, knowing how knowing that, leslie marsh, liberty, memetics, metaphysics, michael oakeshott, mind body, networks, neurobiology, neuroeconomics, neuron, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of economics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, plasticity, political philosophy, psychology, rationality, representationalism, science, self-referentiality, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, socialism, sociocognition, sociology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the "hard" problem, The Road to Serfdom, the sensory order

Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre

Here is the uncorrected proof of my essay – do not cite.

December 23, 2009Delicious, DEMOCRACY, Digg, epistemology, google, Habermas, networks, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, politics, social connectionism, social epistemology, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Technorati

Habermas and the Internet

Here’s an interesting article entitled “Does Habermas Understand the Internet? The Algorithmic Construction of the Blogo/Public Sphere“

December 7, 2009aggregation, ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, Guy Theraulaz, philosophy of mind, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, wasps

Swarm

Swarm grandee Guy Theraulaz presents a lecture on Biological Principles of Swarm Intelligence. Other salient talks available on this site include: Evolutionary Algorithms by Adam Prügel-Bennett Dance evolution by Jeff Balogh, Gregg Dubbin, Michael Do Science, Technology, and Applications of Swarm Robotics by Dario Floreano The Mathematics of Emergence and Flocking by Stephen Smale Fuzzy Logic by Michael Berthold Differential Evolution and…

December 4, 2009ants, artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive systems, collective intentionality, complexity, computational intelligence, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, extended cognitive systems, robotics, robots, situated cognition, social cognition, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the lives of ants, Vitorino Ramos

Small is beautiful

Over at Vitorino Ramos’ ever thoughtful blog is a post extolling the virtues of the “small”. The point is twofold: First, the superb detail afforded by the photographs that Vitorino has assembled shows a rather complexly “designed” creature – a design that belies the supposedly simple life-form that ants are typically taken to be. The…

November 24, 2009Andy Clark, austrian economics, Bounds of Cognition, cognitive closure, cognitive science, cognitive systems, Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind, complexity, consciousness, david chalmers, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, Economics, Embedded, embodiment, emergence, enactivism, extended cognitive systems, extended mind, externalism, hayek, neurophilosophy, particle swarm optimization, philosophy of mind, self-referentiality, situated cognition, skepticism, social cognition, social connectionism, social constructivism, social epistemology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, the sensory order

Momento’s Revenge

I’ve read just about everything by Andy Clark – as I’ve said several times before he is a superb stylist and is philosophy at its most lively. Some years back I read his paper Memento’s Revenge: Objections and Replies to the Extended Mind. I don’t recall having seen the film that Andy references in his paper;…

October 5, 2009cognitive systems, connected, James Fowler, Nicholas Christakis, philosophy of social science, situated cognition, social cognition, social connectionism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, spontaneous order, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence

Connected

Yet another “popular” book on, as I term it, social connectionism – Connected – see New Scientist review. Shame about the dreadful dust jacket hype on Amazon.com.