суббота, 4 мая 2013 г.
Чтобы учиться, не нужно обладать ни разумом, ни сознанием
пятница, 29 марта 2013 г.
четверг, 10 января 2013 г.
THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND
The vision of the brain as a computer, which I still champion, is changing so fast. The brain's a computer, but it's so different from any computer that you're used to. It's not like your desktop or your laptop at all, and it's not like your iPhone except in some ways. It's a much more interesting phenomenon. What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is a way of thinking about in a disciplined way and taking seriously phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts. Until late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling.
THE NORMAL WELL-TEMPERED MIND
A Conversation with Daniel C. Dennett
DANIEL C. DENNETT is University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. His books include Consciousness Explained; Darwin's Dangerous Idea; Kinds of Minds; Freedom Evolves; and Breaking the Spell.
EdgeVideo
50 minutes
http://www.edge.org/conversation/normal-well-tempered-mind
четверг, 29 ноября 2012 г.
THE THIRD CULTURE
As all the people and computers on our planet get more and more closely connected, it's becoming increasingly useful to think of all the people and computers on the planet as a kind of global brain.
A COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE A Conversation with Thomas W. Malone [11.21.12] http://edge.org/conversation/collective-intelligence
EdgeVideo 31 Minutes
THOMAS W. MALONE is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century".
A COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Pretty much everything I'm doing now falls under the broad umbrella that I'd call collective intelligence. What does collective intelligence mean? It's important to realize that intelligence is not just something that happens inside individual brains. It also arises with groups of individuals. In fact, I'd define collective intelligence as groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. By that definition, of course, collective intelligence has been around for a very long time. Families, companies, countries, and armies: those are all examples of groups of people working together in ways that at least sometimes seem intelligent.
It's also possible for groups of people to work together in ways that seem pretty stupid, and I think collective stupidity is just as possible as collective intelligence. Part of what I want to understand and part of what the people I'm working with want to understand is what are the conditions that lead to collective intelligence rather than collective stupidity. But in whatever form, either intelligence or stupidity, this collective behavior has existed for a long time.
What's new, though, is a new kind of collective intelligence enabled by the Internet. Think of Google, for instance, where millions of people all over the world create web pages, and link those web pages to each other. Then all that knowledge is harvested by the Google technology so that when you type a question in the Google search bar the answers you get often seem amazingly intelligent, at least by some definition of the word "intelligence." ...[MORE]
среда, 7 ноября 2012 г.
8 Psychological Insights That Could Prevent The Next Crisis
8 Psychological Insights That Could Prevent The Next Crisis (westcoastjan)
People want to believe that they're in control of a situation. Even when that's fundamentally not the case, they continue to believe their experience and skills can influence a situation. That's particularly dangerous in finance where huge market forces are at play and large losses are possible.
To fight that bias, people who manage risk need to be reminded that some situations can't be managed, no matter how skilled and prepared people are, and that they should expect the worst.
Peak Prosperity: Daily Digest 10/28