We called for a dynamic externalist epistemology from a computational intelligence perspective and a social theory perspective a decade ago — Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition and have been banging on about this via Stigmergy 3.0: From ants to economies and more recently Human-Human Stigmergy. complexitycomputational intelligencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgesituated cognitionSocial Sciencesstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemology
The forthcoming RoboCup football (soccer) tournament in Montreal promises to be the largest yet. When established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable of winning against the human soccer World Cup champions by 2050. Artificial intelligenceCognitive sciencecomplexitycomputational intelligenceEmbodied cognitionroboticsStigmergy
This from Alexander Blum writing in the HuffPost. We already have markets, the republic of science (Polanyi), urban design (Jacobs) and much more besides, spontaneous orders that embody these worthy stygmergic [sic] virtues (quote below). Writing a decade or so ago, the downside then expressed was that there runs the risk of ‘‘a kind of…
Two reports on aerial applied stigmergy which prima facie seems more successful than most of the land-based modeling initiatives I’ve seen. (Report 1) (Report 2). (1) [t]he first actual experimentation of flying two autonomous swarms of UAVs against one another with no human control, other than sending high level commands or sending a message to engage.…
Marcin Miłkowski’s latest just published today and freely accessible here. Bounded RationalityCognitive sciencecomputational intelligenceEmbodied cognitive scienceHerbert SimonMarcin MiłkowskiPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
The very excellent Yaneer Bar-Yam et al have a new paper published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface and freely available as a preprint here. Complex systemscomplexitycomputational intelligenceglobal brainNew England Complex Systems InstituteSocial mediatwitterYaneer Bar-Yam
This paper is to be found in Animal Behaviour, Volume 123, January 2017, pp. 207–216. Could this be an extension of the mechanism of stigmergy? (H/T to Jerry Coyne). We investigated tool selection in two species of Aphaenogaster ants by giving them the choice between different kinds of potential tools (natural and artificial objects). Ant workers showed a…
Sam Harris chats with David Krakauer head of the complexity mecca — Santa Fe Institute. SFI offers some free programmes of real substance and difficulty well worth signing up for in an attempt to offset the illiteracy of philosophers on unavoidable matters of complexity. complexitycomputational intelligencecomputational modelingDavid KrakauerethicsneurosciencePhilosophyPhilosophy of mindPhysicssam harrissanta fe institutescience
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of John von Neumann’s the “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”. Here is the C+T panel and some background to Neumann: Unleashing the Power ‘Turing’s Cathedral. And Von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don’t have to be responsible for the world that you’re in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as…
Duke Forest conference detailed programme now available. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of John von Neumann’s “Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata”. The C+T sponsored panel below: big databruce caldwellcomplexitycomputational economicscomputational intelligencecosmos & taxisEconomicsFrancesco Di IorioFriedrich HayekJohn von Neumannmarek hudikroger frantzSelf-organizationSelf-Reproducing Automata
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