Karl gives a quick overview of the field with more than a nod to the philosophical aspect. Karl was the one who did an MRI and fMRI scan of me 20 years ago: The software failed that day and I was stuck in the scanner for at least an hour or so. Not a pleasant…
The thirteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Marcin Miłkowski Herbert A. Simon is well known for his account of bounded rationality. Whereas classical economics idealized economic agency and framed rational choice in terms of the decision theory, Simon insisted that agents need…
The second in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Robert D. Rupert One can hardly underestimate Herbert Simon’s influence on contemporary cognitive science and empirically oriented philosophy of mind. Working with collaborators at Carnegie Mellon and the Rand Corporation, he wrote Logic Theorist and General Problem…
The most excellent Rob Rupert’s latest article. (A late draft available here). cognitive systemsdistributed cognitionEmbodied cognitionExtended cognitionExtended MindRob Rupert
Newly published as open access in Frontiers in Psychology. At long last Hayek makes an appearance outside of Austrian and behavioral circles though myself and others been banging on about him as a situated theorist for yonks. See Bill Butos’ (ed.) The Social Science of Hayek’s The Sensory Order. economic reasoning is never just an…
A Conversation with Andy Clark (video, audio and transcript). AIAndy ClarkCognitive scienceConsciousness StudiesDaniel DennettExtended MindPerceptionphilosophical psychologypredictive processing
The most excellent Rob Rupert has made his latest paper freely available. Abstract Philosophers of mind commonly draw a distinction between the personal level – the distinctive realm of conscious experience and reasoned deliberation – and the subpersonal level, the domain of mindless mechanism and brute cause and effect. Moreover, they tend to view cognitive…
Chapter 9 from Hayek and Behavioral Economics. agnoseologyBehavioral economicsBounded Rationalitycognitive closurecomplexityDescartesExtended cognitionExtended MindExternalismFriedrich HayekHerbert Simon
Forthcoming from Chris Maloney. So, in this sense, the perceiving mind is an extended mind. Perception is unbrokered cognition of what is real, exactly as it really is. Christopher MaloneyCognitive scienceconsciousnessExtended MindPerceptionPhilosophy of mindqualia
Twenty years on I guess this marks the moment when the hypothesis of extended cognition has well and truly become mainstream. This in The New Yorker. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitive sciencedistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
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