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- Andy Clark, David J Chalmers: The Extended Mind
Fascinating article about the mind and how confined/extended it might be.
Using pen and paper to perform long multiplications is the first step of externalizing cognistive processes – but we are more and more on a route to have many …
- Neil F Johnson: Complexity in Human Conflict
Looking through the book ([asa mybooktitle]3540752609[/asa] by Dirk Helbing (editor)) I stumbled on this article, and it sounded interesting. Reading it, it investigates prior and new work regarding human conflicts – especially distributions of size of casualty numbers in different …
- Extrapolating visual input into the future – and optical illusions
As the visual processing takes some time (in the order of 1/10th of a second), the brain will try to extrapolate a given visual stimulus this time into the future. This makes sense, but of course can go wrong sometimes …
- W D Hillis: Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior or, The Songs of Eden
Hillis considers here that intelligence might be a symbiotic phenomenon, exemplified with apes having the ability to copy, and songs starting to evolve ontop of this substrate.He argues that it could be possible to construct a different artificial substrate …
- Human Color Vision And Daytime Sky
Recently I found this article answering the famous question ‘Why is the sky blue’ a bit different and deeper than I read before. In physics the usual explanation is that the Rayleigh scattering is inversely proportional to the fourth power …
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