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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Clark includes fascinating discussion of cyborg made with human forearm severed from a fresh corpse
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Richard Feynman explains why thinking does not happen in the brain (from Clark presentation):pic.twitter.com/hLdpL4a7uh
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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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@Meaningness Hmm. I don't find that example compelling. I don't really need to know that. What about tying to Dunbar numbers?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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