Dislocating the self: The self is not in the brain, or the mind
Shaun Gallagher for The Institute of Art and Ideas. consciousnessEmbodied cognitionExternalismpersonal identityShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
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Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition: Review
Ian Ground in the TLS 4eCognitiondistributed cognitionrepresentationalismsituated cognition
Bounded Rationality, Shared Experiences, and Social Relationships in Herbert A. Simon’s Perspective
The fourteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Stefano Fiori In his autobiography, Herbert Simon writes: “The most important years of my life as a scientist were 1955 and 1956” (Simon, 1991a, p. 189). In those years he published two important articles that…
Models of Environment
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…
Spiders think with their webs
With the help of their webs, spiders are capable of foresight, planning, learning and other smarts that indicate they may possess consciousness. — New Scientist consciousnessExtended cognitionsituated cognitionStigmergy
From Bounded Rationality to Expertise
The ninth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Fernand Gobet Introduction Historically, a pervasive assumption in the social sciences, in particular economics, is that humans are perfect rational agents. Having full access to information and enjoying unlimited computational resources, they maximise utility when…
Vernon Smith @ 93
A belated happy birthday to Vernon. Adam SmithconstructivismDaniel KahnemanEconomicsNobel Prizesituated cognitionVernon L. Smith
The Brain Senses Touch beyond the Body
Write up on Miller et al’s recent work in Scientific American. Cognitive neuroscienceemboldenedneurosciencesituated cognition
Action and Interaction
Due April 2020. actionCognitive scienceEmbodied cognitionenactivismintentionPhilosophy of mindShaun Gallaghersituated cognition
Cognitive stigmergy: A study of emergence in small-group social networks
Given the significance of today’s date, I thought I’d repost details of a collaborator of mine’s paper in Cognitive Systems Research. 9/11Emergencehuman-human stigmergyNetwork topologySelf-organizationSimulationsituated cognitionSmall worldSocial networkSpontaneous orderstigmergicStigmergyTed Lewis
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