Dense awesome from Andy Clark. he’s done the most significant work in cognitive science in 20 years IMO: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/routledge-lectures/clark-routledge … /v @mtraven
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If you watch physicists and ask “how does that work?” obvious partial answer is: “not without colleagues.” Thinking is inherently social.
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In mid-80s Palo Alto, was an extraordinary synthesis of anglophone cognitivism with anthro/sociology influenced by Continental philosophy
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Have you seen Latour's /Laboratory Life/? Not quite the same point about paper, but *a* point about paper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_Life#An_Anthropologist_Visits_the_Laboratory …
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Yes, that’s a very important work, which spawned a valuable research program which, unfortunately, seems to have died out.
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@Meaningness The "drop your assumptions" reminds me of the "and then a miracle happens" cartoon. It would be a miracle if people could... -
@Jayarava yeah, it’s only partially possible at best. But if you stop assuming that thinking happens in the brain, insight occurs - 16 more replies
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