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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.

Mirko Farina
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 14
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This article is published in Humana.Mente.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognition & Action (philosophy).

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Embodied niche construction in the hominin lineage: semiotic structure and sustained attention in human embodied cognition.

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John Dewey's Experience and Nature

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Wrong side of the tracks: Big Data and Protected Categories

TL;DR: The dangers to democratic decision-making when high-performance algorithms fail to provide an explicit account of causation are described and it is demonstrated how information theory allows us to degrade predictions so that they decorrelate from protected variables with minimal loss of accuracy.
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