Scientists studying ecological and embodied cognition try to use algorithms as little as they can. Instead, they favor dynamical systems, typically represented as a set of equations that share variables in a way that is somewhat looplike: component A changes, which changes component B, which changes component A, and so on. Peculiarities of behavior can be explained as such systems reaching stable states. This episode describes two sets of equations that predict surprising properties of what seems to be intelligent behavior.
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The image is from Maxwell's "On Governors", showing the sort of equations "EEs" work with instead of code.
E45: The offloaded brain, part 5: I propose a software design style
E44: The offloaded brain, part 4: an interview with David Chapman
E42: The offloaded brain, part 2: applications
E41: The offloaded brain, part 1: behavior
EXCERPT: Concepts without categories
EXCERPT: Christopher Alexander’s forces
E40: Roles in collaborative circles, part 2: creative roles
E39: Roles in collaborative circles, part 1
E38: The trajectory of a collaborative circle
E37: Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein
E36: BONUS: One circle-style history of Context-Driven Testing
BONUS: a circle-centric reading of software development through the 1990s, plus screech owls
E34: /Collaborative Circles/, part 1: a teaser
E33: Interview: Jessica Kerr on /Games: Agency as Art/
E32: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 3: expertise, panopticism, and the Big Visible Chart
E31: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 2: the factory
E30: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, and voluntary panopticism, part 1
E29: Interview: Trond Hjorteland on a radical approach to organizational transformation
E28: /Governing the Commons/, part 4: creating a successful commons
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