Those familiar with my work will know that I’ve been banging on about the idea that while mind is not extended in the sense that Adams and Aizawa rightly I think take issue with, i.e. specifying the “mark of the cognitive”, it is extended in the stigmergic sense – and this seems to me what’s…
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Check out the freely available symposium on Pragmatic Encroachment. Also there is a critical notice of Sandy Goldberg’s Relying on Others (sadly not free) that: focuses on the book’s central claim, the extendedness hypothesis, according to which the processes relevant for assessing the reliability of a hearer’s testimonial belief include the cognitive processes involved in…
Dave Chalmers featured in Monolith Magazine. ChalmersconsciousnessDavid ChalmersdualismExtended MindExternalismMindPhilosophy of mindPhysicalism
Someone has posted Guy Theraulaz’ and Eric Bonabeau’s classic paper from Artificial Life. Artificial intelligenceArtificial LifeBiologyCollective intelligencecollective intentionalitycomplexityEusocialityExternalismInsectPierre-Paul GrasséSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergy
Well, this article was inevitable – first mentioned here). Francis Heylighen has been talking about this for a few years now as has myself in discussing Hayek, distributed cognition and co-evolved mind and sociality not to mention my ongoing interest in stigmergy which I argue is a species of EM. Abstract: This article explores the notion of…
Zoe Drayson’s contribution to the EM special issue. Andy ClarkCognitionCognitive scienceExtended MindExternalismFred AdamsPhilosophy of mind
Here is a recent paper kindly brought to my attention by the author. To achieve the aim of establishing the case for externalist neuroeconomics, I rely on other approaches to externalism in the cognitive sciences which focus on the role of external causal processes establishing mental phenomena in terms of interactions between neuronal states and…
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