?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Stigmergic+epistemology%2C+stigmergic+cognition&rft.creator=Marsh%2C+Leslie&rft.creator=Onof%2C+Christian&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Complexity+Theory&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=To+know+is+to+cognize%2C+to+cognize+is+to+be+a+culturally+bounded%2C+rationality-bounded+and+environmentally+located+agent.+Knowledge+and+cognition+are+thus+dual+aspects+of+human+sociality.+If+social+epistemology+has+the+formation%2C+acquisition%2C+mediation%2C+transmission+and+dissemination+of+knowledge+in+complex+communities+of+knowers+as+its+subject+matter%2C+then+its+third+party+character+is+essentially+stigmergic.+In+its+most+generic+formulation%2C+stigmergy+is+the+phenomenon+of+indirect+communication+mediated+by+modi%EF%AC%81cations+of+the+environment.+Extending+this+notion+one+might+conceive+of+social+stigmergy+as+the+extra-cranial+analog+of+an+arti%EF%AC%81cial+neural+network+providing+epistemic+structure.+This+paper+recommends+a+stigmergic+framework+for+social+epistemology+to+account+for+the+supposed+tension+between+individual+action%2C+wants+and+beliefs+and+the+social+corpora.+We+also+propose+that+the+so-called+%22extended+mind%22+thesis+o%EF%AC%80ers+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.&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.date=2008-03-01&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5825%2F1%2Fstigmergic.pdf&rft.identifier=++Marsh%2C+Leslie+and+Onof%2C+Christian++(2008)+Stigmergic+epistemology%2C+stigmergic+cognition.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5825%2F