The Connectionist Mind: A Study of Hayekian Psychology

Smith, Barry D.; Reisman, David

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“…Hayek is a defender of subjectivism but his individualism, similarly to his liberalism, is of bizarre sort. His causal theory of mind is incapable of explaining consciousness, intentionality, inference, or the descriptive and argumentative functions of language (Feser, 2011;Forsyth, 1988;Popper, 1953;Smith, 1997) One cannot help but wonder as to whether writers who fail to acknowledge this similarity, or argue that this relational view of things constitutes a novel and superior feature of Hayek's theory in contradistinction to Mach, have actually paid any serious attention to the latter's work. Birner (1996), for example, posits that 'one of the great differences' between Hayek's and Mach's psychology constitutes in the former's discovery (Hayek, 1952, 53) In actuality, the idea that the mental and physical order can be defined in terms of the relations between their elements, which plays such a prominent role in Hayek's theoretical system, builds upon an unmistakably Machian foundation.…”

Section: The Distinction Between the Search For Generic Principles Anmentioning

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Hayek, Mach, and the re-ordering of mind

Ivanova¹

2015

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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This paper argues that Friedrich A. v. Hayek's theory of mind and the relation between mental and physical events, most systematically presented in his 1952 book, The Sensory Order, is indebted to Ernst Mach's theory, and, in particular, to his Analysis of Sensations, above and beyond what Hayek himself along with multiple admirers of his work ever cared to admit. By highlighting a number of important similarities between Mach's and Hayek's theories of the psychical/phenomenal and physical world/order, the paper aims to show that key aspects of Hayek's theory of mind can be traced back to Mach's theoretical foundations.

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Section: The Distinction Between the Search For Generic Principles Anmentioning

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Hayek, Mach, and the re-ordering of mind

Ivanova¹

2015

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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“…(Hayek 1983, p. 30) However, we do so "not by conscious choice or deliberate selection, but by a mechanism over which we do not exercise deliberate control" (p. 30; see also Nemo 1988, p. 39 ff. ;Petitot 2002;Smith 1997). In other words, the perception is "implicit… interpretation" (p. 143).…”

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“…In Hayek's opinion, the sensory order "is not a stable, but a variable order" (Hayek 1952, p. 19). The "structure of connexions in the nervous system is modified by every new action exercised upon it by the external world" (p. 123; see also Agonito 1975, p. 165, n. 16;Gray 1986;Smith 1997). …”

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“…This cooperation is made possible by the fact that neurons function according to some rules of activation and interaction (Hayek 1952, p. 53; see also Butos and McQuade, 2005;Marsh & Onof, 2008;Smith 1997;Varela 1979;Weimer 1982, p. 245). In Hayek's opinion, when appropriately connected, the neurons "have interesting global properties" (Varela et al 1979, p. 87).…”

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Hayek's the Sensory Order and Gadamer's Phenomenological Hermeneutics

Iorio

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may ABSTRACTThis article reinterprets Hayek's cognitive psychology from the standpoint of the categories employed by phenomenological hermeneutics, and notably by Gadamer. Both Hayek and Gadamer agree on the idea that consciousness is the outcome of a process of interpretation that depends on a 'shifting horizon' -a hermeneutical horizon that is the product of history and that is subject to a constant evolution over time. By comparing Hayek's anti-objectivistic psychology with Gadamer's view, it is possible to clarify and enrich Hayek's distributed knowledge paradigm as well as his criticism of the mechanistic and deterministic theories of action.

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“…Hebbian theory is of course wellknown within cognitive science. Hayek's much neglected work should be of particular interest because, as Barry Smith points out (Smith, 1997), Hayek distinctively made the dynamicism of complex systems the touchstone for his philosophical psychology as well as within his social philosophy in general and his philosophy of economics in particular.…”

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Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition

Marsh

Onof

2008

Cognitive Systems Research

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To know is to cognize, to cognize is to be a culturally bounded, rationality-bounded and environmentally located agent. Knowledge and cognition are thus dual aspects of human sociality. If social epistemology has the formation, acquisition, mediation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in complex communities of knowers as its subject matter, then its third party character is essentially stigmergic. In its most generic formulation, stigmergy is the phenomenon of indirect communication mediated by modifications of the environment. Extending this notion one might conceive of social stigmergy as the extra-cranial analog of an artificial neural network providing epistemic structure. This paper recommends a stigmergic framework for social epistemology to account for the supposed tension between individual action, wants and beliefs and the social corpora. We also propose that the so-called ''extended mind'' thesis offers the requisite stigmergic cognitive analog to stigmergic knowledge. Stigmergy as a theory of interaction within complex systems theory is illustrated through an example that runs on a particle swarm optimization algorithm.

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The Connectionist Mind: A Study of Hayekian Psychology

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