What, Why & How do we Know ?
The Mechanisation of the Mind – On the Origins of Cognitive Science. by Jean-Pierre Dupuy, translated by Malcolm DeBevoise (Princeton University Press, New French Thought series ISBN 0-691-02574-6) Original reference provided by Jorn the original blogger. Earlier partial review here, with some updated highlights as follow: Dupuy’s main theme is the disappointment that Cybernetics and subsequently Cognitive Science failed … Continue reading “Dupuy Completion”
Finished Dupuy – review to follow.
Started – Mechanisation of the Mind – the History of Cognitive Sciences by Dupuy (See below)Actually only read the 6-page preface so far and looking very promising. Not only do we encounter Poincare’s “dazzling intuitions” and self-organising systems in the first page – (the latter concept apparently pre-dating the intended scope of CogSci / Cybernetics … Continue reading “Dupuy’s History of Cognitive Sciences”
Holding post only: The Mechanization of the Mind : On the Origins of Cognitive Science by Jean-Pierre Dupuy (Stanford), Translated by M. B. DeBevoise. Princeton Univ Press. von-Neumann, Wiener, Mind-Matter, Cog-Sci, AI, Chaos and Complexity all in one package. Ref from RobotWisdom – must investigate. Broken link above: See here for a full review.
#EMFAMBE Never really approved of neologisms as a way of avoiding the baggage of perfectly serviceable existing words and language. Two reasons: First, that it implies some “invention” of the concept not just the word, and that invention implies some proprietorial – copyright – interest in its use, even if the idea is as old … Continue reading “Psybernetics ?”
This is a 2023 Annotation of a 2005 paper prepared originally for the Liverpool Conference on Robert Pirsig and his Metaphysics of Quality (MoQ). The text is unchanged except for correcting a few obvious typos and formatting errors, and to keep me honest the original “It’s Evolutionary Psychology Stupid” remains here complete with old broken … Continue reading “Zero to Pirsig”
ECO is Emergence, Complexity & Organization – An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems It’s the rabbit hole I’ve been down today, so this is just a riff on the content connections I’ve been making. Kevin Mitchell is rapidly becoming my favourite follow on Twitter. As well as reviewing his book “Innate“, I’ve also … Continue reading “Emergence, Complexity and Organisation”
Having a day in bed, trying to shake off this year’s cold between Christmas and New Year. Know exactly where we picked it up. Someone suffering conspicuously badly behind the bar a week before Christmas at one of the pubs we frequent was surely the spreader event. Naughty. Same symptoms, including a damn cough, but … Continue reading “The Between Times”