Apparently March 2015 is the release date. I think I have 7 or 8 entries. Behavioral economicsdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgemorris altmanReal World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economicssituated cognition
Stigmergy gets a bit of a mention in Newsweek. Swarms often work by “stigmergy,” a term coined by French biologist Pierre-Paul Grassé in 1959 to describe termite behavior. He defined it as “the stimulation of workers by the performance they have achieved.” It has come to mean a mark left in the environment. Think of…
Drawing upon developments in social epistemology, behavioral economics, social neuroscience, philosophy of mind, philosophy of social science, network science and computational intelligence, this is a practical instantiation of knowledge transmission, liberality and emergent order. Today 95% of all motion picture content is viewed on a small or personal screen and it is being increasingly programmed,…
This from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceBrainbrain imagingbrain scienceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeethnographyExtended MindExternalismhuman brain projectneurosciencescience and technology studies
Another paper by Shaun this time coauthored with Jan Slaby (check out Jan’s website — lot’s of good stuff here). The concept of a socially extended mind suggests that our cognitive processes are extended not simply by the various tools and technologies we use, but by other minds in our intersubjective interactions, and more systematically by institutions that,…
Special issue of Mind & Society. (H/T to Francesco Di Iorio) From April 8th to 10th 2013, the Herbert Simon Society held its first General Conference in New York. About fifty researchers from different countries and working in different areas attended the event. The conference focused on three topics which were identified as particularly relevant in…
Here’s is a series of excellent stigmergic renderings. distributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeemergent orderstigmergicstigmergic cognitionstigmergic epistemologyStigmergy
The superb Rob Rupert contribution to the superb Byron Kaldis edited volume. It may seem natural to think of the mind as a stream of conscious experience occurring squarely behind the eyes, or perhaps as some single, persisting subject of these experiences, hovering in the center of the skull. The past hundred years of scientific thinking…
Coming soon: The first and only encyclopedia to focus on the economic and financial behaviors of consumers, investors, and organizations, including an exploration of how people make good—and bad—economic decisions. Features • Contains an informative introductory essay that familiarizes students with the various aspects of behavioral economics Provides a list of additional readings for those…
An interesting article by the excellent team of Harris, Barnier, Sutton and Keil CognitionCognitive sciencecomplexitydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mind
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