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Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Hoodoo And Physics: A Conversation with Andrea Hairston by Arley Sorg

Don Ihde and Lambros Malafouris (Philosophy and Technology 32:195–214, 2019) have argued that “we are homo faber not just because we make things but also because we are made by them.” The emphasis falls on the idea that the things that we create, use, rely on—that is, those things with which we engage—have a recursive effect on human existence. We make things, but we also make arrangements, many of which are long-standing, material, social, normative, economic, institutional, and/or po...

Discover what some of our favorite SXSW speakers had to say on the best book they read in 2023. Explore the Conference Community Newsletter Speaker Series.

This chapter questions the causal-constitution fallacy raised against the extended mind. It does so by presenting our signature temporal thesis about how to understand constitutive relations in the context of the extended mind, and with respect to dynamical systems, more broadly. We call this thesis diachronic constitution. We will argue that temporalising the constitution relation is not as remarkable (nor problematic) as it might initially seem. It is (arguably) inevitable, given local interac...

In this blog we discuss how the transformer architecture naturally extends over external memories, and share empirical results which leverage this capability. These methods are innate (don’t require fine tuning) and outperform popular retrieval augmented generation methods.

An agricultural scientist and expert has described Young Nigerian women as the long-term solution to curbing Nigeria's low food production and food security

A Tribute to Brian O’Doherty, edited by Brenda Moore-McCann

Research supports the benefits of ‘expressive writing’ – but what makes it so cathartic?

New research discusses how the Learning Sciences Exchange fellowship model uses collaboration to provide a framework for addressing pressing problems in education (and beyond).

Virtual reality has become a breeding ground for sexual harassment.