Tag: cognitive science

• Primitive Peacemakers, pt 2: Polytheism & an Ecology of Practice

  Previously. Main takeaways: Negotiating with those who share your frame is straightforward. The potential for agreement—for reaching a new coordinative equilibrium—is built into the shared frame and in some sense pre-arranged. To agree to a frame, or definition of a situation, is to have already preemptively struck a deal. It is when frames are contested,…

  suspendedreason

  April 14, 2023

  Essays

  Bruce Lee, cognitive science, David Chapman, ecology of practice, Erving Goffman, fitness, frame problem, George Eliot, Herman Melville, heuristics, Hubert Dreyfus, Jake Orthwein, John Vervaeke, Jordan B. Peterson, maps, metarationality, metasystematicity, Middlemarch, Moby Dick, mood, mood affiliation, No Free Lunch Theorem, PIG optimality, postrationalism, postrationality, Ralph Waldo Emerson, rationality, Sarah Perry

• Predictive Hermeneutics

  A preprint of “A Bayesian hermeneutic” — the cogsci paper Thomas Rutten & I worked on last summer in Mexico City — is available at Research Gate here. It aims to introduce a new subfield of hermeneutics we term “predictive hermeneutics.”

  suspendedreason

  April 28, 2019

  Blog

  Andy Clark, Bayesian brain, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, conceptual art, erotics of art, hermeneutic circle, hermeneutic revision, hermeneutics, Karl Friston, literary theory, modernism, neuroscience, Peter Stockwell, postmodernism, predictive coding, predictive hermeneutics, predictive processing, Thomas Rutten, visual art