Footnotes 2 Plato CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionEvan ThompsonExtended Mindnaturalismowen flanaganPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Here is an extract from the intro to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg by Steven Tester. GCL was a thoroughly modern mind in so many ways making writers such as Dennett, Grayling and the like seem rather timid (my previous Lichtenberg posts). Given Lichtenberg’s interest in self-knowledge, metempsychosis, and personal identity, it is not surprising that he often…
Jeff Hawkins interview. Here’s what we do inside Grok: we build this 60,000-neuron neural network that emulates a very small part of one layer of the neocortex. It’s about a thousandth the size of a mouse brain and a millionth the size of a human brain. So: not super-intelligent, but we’re using the principle by…
Keynote talk by Andy for the 9th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication. Andy appears @ 11:57 active externalismAndy ClarkCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismneurosciencePerceptionphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mind
Yet more EM. Artificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceCollective intelligencecollective intentionalitycomplexityconsciousnessdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgeExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mindsituated cognitionsocial epistemology
The power team of Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina and Andy Clark have written this entry for Oxford Bibliographies Online. Andy ClarkArtificial intelligenceCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessEmbodied cognitionExtended MindExternalismPhilosophy of mindsituated cognition
Here is the intro to Matthew’s article: Where does thinking happen? The obvious and most common answer is “somewhere inside the head.” After all, this is where the brain is safely housed behind seven millimeters of protective armor. However, despite the instinctive appeal of this response, some theoretical camps have been willing to flirt with…
The intro to Liane’s paper. Other papers in this issue explore how cognition is shaped by the social matrix in which it is embedded. In this paper the reader is invited to take a step back and consider the dynamics that emerge when cognitive agents do not just learn from one another, but ‘put their own…
Here is Searle, still the master performer after all these years. He hasn’t dimmed an iota since I saw him in London in 1989. Artificial intelligenceChinese RoomCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive sciencecomplexityconsciousnessdualismEmbodied cognitionExtended Mindneurosciencephilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindqualiasearle
Last August I chanced upon a forthcoming book by István Aranyosi. I’m pleased to say that my copy arrived today and I’m very much looking forward to reading it. Any book that opens with a Kafka quote suggests immaculate taste. Not only that, but the series of which this book is a part is edited than…
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