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Phantoms in the Brain
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The Knowledge Problem
Abstract: Hayek's (1945) elaboration of the difficulty of aggregating diffuse private knowledge is the best-known articulation of the knowledge problem, and is an example of the difficulty of coordinating individual plans and choices in the ubiquitous and unavoidable presence of dispersed, private, subjective knowledge; prices communicate some of this private knowledge and thus serve as knowledge surrogates. The knowledge problem has a deep provenance in economics and epistemology. Subsequent scholars have also developed the knowledge problem in various directions, and have applied it to areas such as robust political economy. In fact, the knowledge problem is a deep epistemological challenge, one with which several scholars in the Austrian tradition have grappled. This essay analyzes the development of the knowledge problem in its two main categories: the complexity knowledge problem (coordination in the face of diffuse private knowledge) and the contextual knowledge problem (some knowledge relevant to such coordination does not exist outside of the market context). It also provides an overview of the development of the knowledge problem as a concept that has both complexity and epistemic dimensions, the knowledge problemʼs relation to and differences from modern game theory and mechanism design, and its implications for institutional design and robust political economy.
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Prominent and persistent loss of past awareness in amnesia: delusion, impaired consciousness or coping strategy?
TL;DR: This explanation of CW's state as it had been in those early years is reviewed, and two other possibilities are considered – namely, that CW had suffered from a loss of “autobiographical self” or “extended consciousness”, and that his verbal reports simply reflected a form of coping strategy to help him deal with the limited evidence he had available in “declarative” memory.
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Representation Redux: Is there still a useful role for representation to play in the context of embodied, dynamicist and situated theories of mind?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the suggestion that representation should be eliminated from the explanative vocabulary of cognitive science and conclude that the role of representation in explanation has not been superseded by enactive and radical embodied theories of cognition.
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Digital Practices: An aesthetic and neuroesthetic approach to virtuality and embodiment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer a description of various performance and art practices which involve interaction with new technologies, such as, motion tracking, artificial intelligence, 3D modeling and a...
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a preliMinary case for aMnesic selVes: toWard a clinical Moral psychology
TL;DR: It is shown that established dissociations in individuals with episodic amnesia falsify many initially plausible formulations of N, and the task going forward is to formulate a hypothesis that avoids falsification or to conclude that no plausible formulation succeeds.