Date/Time
Tuesday
17 Oct 2017
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Location
310 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

Event Type
Non-CSTMS Event

When Gregory Bateson, the anthropologist and visionary cyberneticist, introduced his concept of an “ecology of mind” he was encouraging us to pay attention to how human thinking took place in and across complex networks of activity – biological, technical, social, and political. The individual was an active but ephemeral node in a striated ecosystem of ideas and cognition that had to be understood and managed at high levels of order.

And yet, within the intertwined disciplines of cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, master disciplines that dominate the study of human thought in the twenty-first century, most research is still relentlessly focused on the individual mind-brain nexus. This is despite the steady recognition in the parallel universe of Science and Technology Studies, Continental Philosophy, and Sociology that cognition is something that is shared between minds, between minds and machines, and between people and institutional matrices. See more on Berkeley Center for New Media.