Embodied cognition is so obviously true that it’s hard to understand why many AI/cognitive scientists ignore it. Academia in general also tends to ignore it.
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Replying to @kay314159
And politic scientists! (My dissertation treats belief systems -- and, in particular, the expression of beliefs -- as a means of stigmergy, not truth seeking.)
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What is stigmergy?
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The canonical example is ants leaving pheromone traces in their environment for coordination and computation. (I don't like to use that example though -- too many people spend way too much time comparing us to ants.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy
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All this talk of embodied cognition and pheromones made me think of Rodney Brooks: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Artificial_Life_Route_to_Artificial.html?id=-yOhtgEACAAJ …
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While on vacation with my family in middle school, I read this book. Sincerely, I think it motivated the next 20 years of my life. (I also remember thinking, "Stephen Wolfram sounds like a badass!" Happily, I supplemented my subsequent education.) https://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/artificial-life …
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