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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@Meaningness Respect. It’s sad that Phil Agre dropped out of the influence track.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I just lost about 72 hours of my life reading everything he ever wrote. Whatever happened to him?
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http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2010/01/missing_internet_pioneer_phil.html … (I don’t know very much more than this)
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thanks! I recently found your writing when someone forwarded your nutrition post and asked flatteringly "is this you jahed?" great stuff!
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met few people who understand the value philosophy brings to analysis of naive Bayesian logical positivism. thanks for sharing your thoughts
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Glad you like it! FWIW, LW is under new management, and related community is growing up some; positive developments.
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