This is a highly unusual collection worth checking out, co-edited by the very excellent Dagfinn Føllesdal – for the first time here is a work that seriously brings Adam Smith into the orbit of cogsci: Contents Preface Introduction Contributors Can we have objective knowledge of the world? Can we understand what is morally right or wrong?…
Since I’m about to submit another themed issue of Cognitive Systems Research I thought I’d give a plug to the papers from the last CSR “Extended Mind” issue I edited some two months ago. First up is Dan Weiskopf’s paper: According to the hypothesis of extended cognition (HEC), parts of the extrabodily world can constitute cognitive…
New EM paper by Kourken Michaelian published in Consciousness and Cognition. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceConsciousness and CognitionConsciousness StudiesExtended MindMemoryneurosciencePhilosophy of mindUniversity of Granada
Alva Noë’s latest musings. Agency (philosophy)CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExpertExtended MindJames AtlasNervous systemphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindZombie
Check out the programme for the upcoming SPP meeting. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologyqualia
Check out Nick Day’s documentary recorded at the annual Toward a Science of Consciousness conference. Artificial intelligenceBuddhismCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindneuroscienceNick Dayphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceQuantum mechanicsRoger PenroseRupert Sheldrake
The VERY excellent Rob Rupert on naturalistic theories of mental content and no surprise – extended mind. Also with Jonno Sutton and Richard Menary sandwiched in between Rob. H/T to Ken Aizawa for the alert. Here is a link to my collection of “Rupertiana“. Alan SaundersBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityDavid ChalmersEmbodied cognitionExtended MindPhilosophy of mindPhilosophy of scienceRobert RupertShaun…
Programming the Global Brain Considering how we can improve our understanding and utilization of the emerging human-computer network constituting the global brain. (Here’s a previous post on this topic) Abraham Bernstein, Mark Klein, Thomas W. Malone New ways of combining networked humans and computers—whether they are called collective intelligence, social computing, or various other terms—are…
I first came across a reference to Eugène Marais in Andries Engelbrecht’s very excellent Computational Intelligence: An Introduction. See the links below for details about this highly unusual character. The Tragic Genius of Eugène Marais (The author, Conrad Reitz, very kindly shared some of his thoughts with me). The Soul of the White Ant Introduction by Keith Addison EUGÈNE Marais was a South African…
Alva Noë on where to look Alva NoëAstonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the SoulBrainCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDescartesEmbodied cognitionExtended MindFrancis CrickneurosciencePhilosophy of mindRené Descartes
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