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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However, anglophone philosophy of mind has mostly not yet recovered (2) cognition is inextricably social activity. Which changes everything!
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does social activity (ie 2) include {imagining how person Z responds to a claim}? In such fake convos, my mouth moves like an idiot (ie 1)
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Also, there is the research on a part of the brain which is mimicking that of an individual that you are talking to.
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seems like we embody the knowledge created by our social relationships (1) vs (2) feels like a false dichotomy.
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Yes that wasn’t meant to be “vs” but “and”
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fun to think about how internet-enabled-AI could be leaky! AI: this feels like my twitter bot where cat photos got lots of
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