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Contributors to the April 2023 issue of TD magazine offer their book recommendations.

  Are you lost in the world? Are you getting enough NATURE in your life? https://youtu.be/Bf5TgVRGND4 How do you spend your days? Do you get outside to walk, hike, garden, explore, camp, read, or even just sit and see the sun set or the moon rise on a regular basis? Do you hear the birds? Do…

In this paper we consider the importance of trust, in the context of economic institutions, and specifically with respect to questions about market mechanisms and the role of social interactions. We review recent advances in institutional economics closely tied to developments in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, involving extended and enactive cognition. We argue that the analysis of different conceptions of institutional mind extension, in Denzau and North’s shared mental models, Clark’s extended mind, and a more enactive approach that emphasizes the importance of social interact...

Groundbreakers at the conference were asked what’s coming next for the brain, climate, medicine, labor, security and business.

Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. Active inference and predictive processing in cognitive science assume that organisms embody predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world optimized by standard cognitive functions (e.g., perception, action, learning). This paper presents an active inference formulation that views cognitive niche construction a...