Tag Archive Browsing Tag: complexity

Browse by:
austrian economics, brain science, cognitive closure, consciousness, extended mind, externalism, networks, neural networks, neurobiology, neurophilosophy, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of social science, social connectionism, social epistemology, sociocognition, the sensory order

Hayek in Mind: Hayek’s Philosophical Psychology

The book was published today. Here is the publisher’s webpage and the Amazon page. CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexityFriedrich HayekHayekhebbphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychology

bees, collaboration, collective intentionality, collective knowledge, complexity, connectionism, distributed cognition, distributed knowledge, social connectionism, social epistemology, stigmergic, stigmergic cognition, stigmergy, swarm, swarm behavior, swarm intelligence, Thomas D. Seeley

Neuroswarm

This article is really creating a buzz (sorry!!) The idea has some resonance to an aspect of Hayek’s social epistemology (see the article that I just today uploaded). In much the same way that synapses are strengthened while unused linkages weaken and wither away, so too are paths to salient social knowledge strengthened or weakened –…

cognitive 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