Feynman’s approach (https://youtu.be/CJ8MzWncFfQ ) was: look at something, try to drop your assumptions, ask: how does that work? Find simple expl
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Look at a physicist, drop 2500 years of wrong philosophy of science, ask “how does that work?” Answer includes: “not without paper.”
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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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Central late-80s insight: cognition not primarily in individual brain, because (1) whole body and inanimate tools also required; and >
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(2) social division of cognitive labor; I *can’t* “know” that Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Fasso by myselfhttp://meaningness.com/representational-theory-of-mind/comments#comment-663 …
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Work I did with Phil Agre (http://meaningness.com/metablog/ken-wilber-boomeritis-artificial-intelligence …) imported the "Palo Alto synthesis" into AI; forced some philosophers to pay attention.
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For various personal reasons, the social group promoting the “Palo Alto synthesis” disintegrated, and the ideas were mostly forgotten.
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In late ‘90s, Andy Clark, reading same stuff we’d read, rediscovered part (1) of the insight, and has run with “extended mind” brilliantly.
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@Meaningness I also find Lynn Margulis's "symbiotic planet" idea compelling.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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