2 month ago
deusx : [0808.3569] Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology - ""Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognizers can offl
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4 month ago
deusx : Extended Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "The Extended Mind refers to an emerging concept within the philosophy of mind that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism. This view proposes that some objects
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4 month ago
deusx : The Extended Mind - "Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The question invites two standard replies. Some accept the demarcations of skin and skull, and say that what is outside the body is outside the mind. Others are impressed by arguments suggest
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14 month ago
veen : Dunbar's number - Wikipedia - "Dunbar's number, which is 150, represents a theoretical maximum number of individuals with whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each person relates social
deusx : Dunbar's number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "which is 150, represents a theorized cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable social relationships,"
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20 month ago
deusx : Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers - "Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence."
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deusx : Open the Future: Augmented Fluid Intelligence - "These kinds of bots -- attention filters, perhaps, or focus assistants -- are likely to become important parts of how we handle our daily lives."
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23 month ago
deusx : if:book: blogging restructures consciousness? - "These rules (and their runes) create a scaffold for the brain, which, now able to engage with complex ideas in contemplative solitude as opposed to interlocution, begins to conceive of itself as an individual entity rather than as part of a collective. L
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deusx : Developing Intelligence : Shared Intentionality in Human and Primate Cognition - "Although humans and non-human primates differ in a variety of seemingly more important ways, Tomasello suggests that "shared intentionality" is the most critical: a propensity for social interaction allowed each of these other capacities to evolve to the
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28 month ago
deusx : MindBlog: How do we persist when our molecules do not? - "No component of the system is itself stable but the entire production locks together to have stable existence. This is how you can manage to persist even though much of you is being recycled by day if not the hour."
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30 month ago
deusx : Anne 2.0 - Blog Archive Crazy Like a Fox - "I know a little about a lot of things and quite a bit about how all those things hook up."
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31 month ago
deusx : articles : Upload Your Life Now - Jim Baen's Universe - "Everything I've described is possible today, and a lot of it is going on right now in the MyLifeBits project."
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31 month ago
deusx : Alex Byrne: What Mind-Body Problem - "It may yet turn out that the hard problem of consciousness is not so hard after all."
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31 month ago
deusx : The next big bang: Man meets machine | CNET News.com - "research on multiple fronts in digital technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology may, over the next half century, alter the way we think about computers and information, and our relationship to them"
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31 month ago
merlinmann : Apes demonstrate ability to plan ahead - LiveScience - MSNBC.com - Oh, great. Apparently scrub jays can plan ahead. They already run our back yard like tyrants. I wish we had bonobos back there instead. [via Mr. Sun]
deusx : Apes demonstrate ability to plan ahead - LiveScience - MSNBC.com - "Scientists study how bonobos, orangutans anticipate need for tools"
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32 month ago
deusx : 365 tomorrows - Internal Clock. - "It took nearly a year to reach her house, by which point, Alba had aged almost twenty minutes."
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33 month ago
deusx : Humans evolved color vision to see emotion, not food | News.blog | CNET News.com - "The eyes in humans and their closest relatives in the primate world are geared to detect subtle changes in skin tone caused by blood oxygen levels, according to a new study from Caltech."
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33 month ago
deusx : LOST Magazine - Gray Area: Thinking With a Damaged Brain - "My entire brain, the organ by which my very consciousness is controlled, was reorganized one day ten years ago."
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33 month ago
deusx : Mind Hacks: Thinking with a damaged brain - "It's rare to find such a carefully considered and well-informed account of brain damage from someone who has suffered the consequences."
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34 month ago
deusx : Mind Hacks: Does advertising erode free will - Free will seems to dissolve as you draw away from it - as an individual I don't feel manipulated, but when i look at other people - especially groups of other people, it seems like I can see manipulation going on.
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34 month ago
deusx : New Scientist Breaking News - Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten? - "New computer simulations lend further support the notion that cooperation helped early humans escape becoming prey for other animals, researchers report."
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34 month ago
deusx : The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Big Brain Thinking - Technology Review - "Stanford neuroscientist Bill Newsome wants to implant an electrode in his brain to better understand human consciousness."
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34 month ago
deusx : Mind Hacks: Erasing the need for sleep - "Although perhaps we can be a bit suspicious of the claim that they have "few, if any, ill effects", as the history of new drugs shows that major effects are often not discovered until several years after the marketing claims them to be virtually side-eff
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34 month ago
deusx : Head Games: The Use of Mental Rehearsal to Improve Performance - "Mental rehearsal of performances is an excellent way to support skill development."
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34 month ago
deusx : The Wisdom of Parasites. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future - Attack of the Pod Roaches
jkottke : The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! - The world's coolest parasite; it makes zombie cockroaches! When it wants to lay its eggs, the Ampulex compressa wasp stuns a cockroach, numbs its brain, steers it back to its nest, lays an egg inside it, and eventually a larvae forms, it lunches on the co
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35 month ago
deusx : Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - "In very broad terms, individuals with Asperger's have normal or above average intellectual capacity, and atypical or less well developed social skills, often with emotional/social development or integration happening later than usual as a result."
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