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Where Is My Mind?: An Interview with Andy Clark
David Maclean, iAi News, 2018/11/20

Short interview with philosopher Andy Clark. His first book, Microcognition, came out (and was very influential) around the time I was working on my PhD studies on the same topic. He explores connectionism, extended cognition, and the nature of consciousness. "If the information stored ‘out there’ is in those ways properly integrated with the stuff known by the bio-core, it counts as part of your extended mind. I think we’ll all get used to this in the near future, as we routinely extend our minds using various forms of more personalized A.I.," he says.

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Beware Of The Great MOOC Bait-And-Switch
Derek Newton, Forbes, 2018/11/20

If you just go by what the large U.S.-based institutions and companies are doing, which is what this article does, then MOOCs look like a scam. "MOOCs are now the free ice cream, the bait in the trap and, as such, it’s normal to wonder what they’re really worth even if they’re free." But outside the bastion, MOOCs are doing what they were intended to do: provide free learning resources to millions of people. This week alone I'm looking K-MOOCs in Korea (see here) and the KOOL system in Kerala (see here). It's the stark contrast between the world according to Forbes and the world according to the rest of us. (Note, as always, with Forbes, there's a spamwall, which I disable with Ublock Origin; there's also popup video - scroll down, scroll up, scroll down again and the 'close window' (X) appears above the video so you can shut it down).

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