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| Title: | Self-organizing collections and collective agents |
| Authors: | Ismael, Jenann |
| Keywords: | minds mobs memories ismael centre for time |
| Issue Date: | 3-Dec-2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | Minds, Mobs and Memories |
| Abstract: | Advances in understanding self-organization over the past few decades have led to the temptation to extend it to a model of human cognition. The extension is supported by new insights in situated cognition and success in reproducing quite complex behaviors in robots without any centralized control. Dennett has been a vocal proponent of the extension, repeatedly invoking analogies with self-organizing systems and denying the existence of a self, conceived as an inner locus of information and control. I arguei argue that there is a difference between self-organizing collections and collectives. Only the latter are agents. And this difference is crucial for our understanding of selves. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1323 |
| Appears in Collections: | Conference presentations, workshops and meetings |
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