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September 27, 2008artificial intelligence, distributed knowledge, philosophy of social science, robotics, robots, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, traffic

Overview of Stigmergy

Here is a slideshow giving an overview of the concept of stigmergy and its applications.

September 14, 20081, aggregation, alvin goldman, artificial intelligence, blogging, Cass Sunstein, cognition, cognitive modeling, complexity, DEMOCRACY, disagreement, distributed knowledge, Economics, emergence, epistemology, extended mind, hayek, James Surowiecki, neuroeconomics, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, psychology, richard posner, social cognition, social constructivism, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, sociology, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, trust, truth

The Social Epistemology of Blogging

Alvin Goldman, the doyen of analytic social epistemology, has a draft paper posted on his website entitled “The Social Epistemology of Blogging.” What’s gratifying to me is that via Richard Posner (whom Goldman cites), Hayek, who I have argued is the social epistemologist par excellence, makes an appearance. I have recently argued that if Hayek was centrally…

September 8, 2008artificial intelligence, cognition, cognitive modeling, complexity, distributed knowledge, emergence, robotics, robots, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Swarm Intelligence: special issue on Swarm Robotics

Another journal plug – this time for a special issue of Swarm Intelligence on Swarm Robotics. Check out the announcement on Simon Garnier’s blog.

August 20, 2008cognitive science, cognitive systems research, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, social cognition, sociocognition, sociology, swarm intelligence

Top of the Cognitive Systems Research Pops

This is sad, I know – it reminds me of when the “Top of the Pops” actually meant something to us 70s kids! Anyway, I was pleased to learn that 11 of the 13 articles from the themed double issue of Cognitive Systems Research (“Perspectives on Social Cognition“) have appeared in the top 25 most downloaded…

August 8, 2008artificial intelligence, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Swarm Robotics

Here is a BBC report from A.I. XI

July 26, 2008ants, complexity, distributed knowledge, emergence, stigmergy, swarm intelligence, traffic

Swarm intelligence and traffic patterns

Simon Garnier has found and posted a super little swarm vignette on his website. This is as lucid an introduction to swarm intelligence as one is likely to get. Nice one Simon!

May 17, 2008aggregation, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, distributed knowledge, Economics, epistemology, political philosophy, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, sociology, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology

I don’t normally plug conferences but this one is unsual in that it falls squarely within my current research interests. Check out the conference webpage here.

April 5, 2008cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, distributed knowledge, extended mind, hayek, social cognition, social epistemology, social ontology, sociocognition, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Visual Complexity

Thanks to Simon Garnier I discovered this wonderful website dedicated to representations of complexity. As a social epistemologist I have a particular interest in knowledge networks and social networks. The images that draw upon biology for inspiration are particular compelling – on aesthetic grounds alone. complexity

March 6, 2008Bounds of Cognition, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, connectionism, consciousness, distributed knowledge, Economics, embodiment, epistemology, extended mind, hayek, Heidegger, leslie marsh, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, psychology, social cognition, social epistemology, sociocognition, stigmergy, swarm intelligence

Perspectives on Social Cognition

Here is the fully published special issue of Cognitive Systems Research Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008 2. Introduction to the special issue “Perspectives on Social Cognition” Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues 1-2, March 2008, Pages 1-4 Leslie Marsh and Christian Onof 3. Functionalism and mental boundaries Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 9, Issues…

March 1, 2008Bounds of Cognition, brain damage, cognitive modeling, cognitive science, consciousness, distributed knowledge, embodiment, extended mind, leslie marsh, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, robots, scientific american, swarm intelligence

Robots

The Volume 18, Number 1 issue of Scientific American Reports is a special edition on robotics. The following articles feature: 1. Bill Gates’s “A Robot in Every Home” concentrates on such commonplace items as the vacuum cleaner and not the…