Description
The last in the series on collaborative circles. The creative roles in a collaborative circle, discussed with reference to both Christopher Alexander's forces and ideas from ecological and embodied cognition. Special emphasis on collaborative pairs.
Sources
Michael P. Farrell, Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work, 2001
Louise Barrett, Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds, 2011
Anthony Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, 2011
Mentioned
Emily Dickinson, "A narrow Fellow in the Grass", 1891 (I think version 2 is the original. Dickinson's punctuation was idiosyncratic, but early editions of her poetry conventionalized it.)
Talking Heads, "Psycho Killer", 1977
Paul Karl Feyerabend, Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend, 1995
Michael J. Reddy, "The conduit metaphor: A case of frame conflict in our language about language", in A. Ortony (Ed.), Metaphor and Thought, 1979 (wikipedia article)
Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (Turing Award lecture), 1984
Credits
The picture of the umbrella or rotary clothesline is due to Pinterest user MJ Po. Don't tell Dawn it's the episode image.
In this episode, I ask the question: what would a software design style inspired by ecological and embodied cognition be like? I sketch some tentative ideas. I plan to explore this further at nh.oddly-influenced.dev, a blog that will document an app I'm beginning to write.
In my implementation,...
Published 12/31/23
In the '80s, David Chapman and Phil Agre were doing work within AI that was very compatible with the ecological and embodied cognition approach I've been describing. They produced a program, Pengi, that played a video game well enough (given the technology of the time) even though it had nothing...
Published 12/04/23