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April 17, 2012Andy Clark, cognitive science, cognitive systems, consciousness, david chalmers, extended mind, externalism, neurophilosophy, robert wilson

The Web-extended mind

A pre-print of Paul Smart’s paper. CognitionCognitive scienceExtended MindMindPaul Smartphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindShaun GallagherSocial Sciences

March 12, 2012complex adaptive systems, complexity, constructivism, cosmos, hayek, rationalism, social connectionism, social epistemology, social ontology, spontaneous order, stigmergic, stigmergy, taxis

I chanced upon this painting entitled “Cosmos and Taxis“. The inspiration is, of course, as the artist states: One effect of our habitually identifying order with a made order or taxis is indeed that we tend to ascribe to all order certain properties which deliberate arrangements regularly, and with respect to some of these properties…

February 25, 2012Andy Clark, architecture, cognitive science, david chalmers, Embedded, embodied cognition, embodiment, extended mind, externalism, philosophy of mind

Extended mind, architecture and design

Chalmers’ and Clark’s extended mind thesis cited in this article from an architecture and design publication. Turning to philosophy and robotics gives us a new insight into what might be going on. In 1998, A. Clark and D. Chalmers proposed the “extended mind” concept, where the workings of our mind actually extend beyond the brain…