Embodied Mind and Cognition
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Un despliegue corporal de la poesía de San Juan de la Cruz. Esta propuesta sui generis se abastece de varias disciplinas como la filosofía cognitiva, la filosofía japonesa y la poesía mística sufí e hindú.
Embodiment is typically given insufficient weight in debates concerning the moral status of Novel Synthetic Beings (NSBs) such as sentient or sapient Artificial Intelligences (AIs). Discussion usually turns on whether AIs are conscious or... more
Ich behaupte, dass die Tabelle der Intentionalität (Rationalität, Bewusstein, Geist, Denken, Sprache, Persönlichkeit usw.), die hier prominent dargestellt wird, mehr oder weniger genau beschreibt oder zumindest als Heuristik dient, wie... more
A call for papers is open for the 1st Workshop with the title "Testing Embodied Cognition: The Embodied Mind in a Cognitive Universal Body" 5th September 2019 - “Taberna” – Alte Mensa – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Deadline... more
It is common to find depictions of behaviorist approaches to the mind as approaches according to which mental (or psychological) events are “dispositions for behavior.” Moreover, it is sometimes said that for these approaches the... more
Spontaneity and Rationality-a fresh look Or DIFFICULTY IN UNDERSTANDING the spontaneous nature of CHILDREN by reason based knowledge system. Once, I happened to watch two people swimming and noticed that one's actions were totally... more
Cross-linguistic strategies for mapping lexical and spatial relations from body partonym systems to external object meronymies (as in English 'table leg', 'mountain face') have attracted substantial research and debate over the past three... more
The present monograph has discussed the theoretical development of Cognitive Linguistics in general and the theory of Conceptual Metaphors and Metonymy in particular. The development of this theory has raised complex methodological issues... more
Mehr als 2000 Jahre hat sich die Philosophie mit dem Schreckgespenst des Skeptizismus herumgeschlagen. In diesem Aufsatz werden wir unsere Ansicht begründen, daß ein modifizierter wissenschaftlicher Skeptizismus gestützt werden kann... more
PLAYING AS A MEANS TO AWAKEN THE INNER WORLD We are formed by what we do. The child is being awakened, developed and formed by what it does. In that sense the initial period of the child’s life is spend in forming itself by means of the... more
In this paper, the role of the environment and physical embodiment of computational systems for explanatory purposes will be analyzed. In particular, the focus will be on cognitive computational systems, understood in terms of mechanisms... more
The awareness of death is a central motivating force behind human activity. Their capacities for abstract and symbolic reasoning give human beings a unique foresight of their finite lifetime and forthcoming demise. Because of the... more
As so often in philosophy, the title not only lays down the battle line but exposes the author’s biases and mistakes, since whether or not we can make sense of the language game ‘Seeing things as they are’ and whether it’s possible to... more
This study explores multimodal metaphors and metonymies in Faust, a German Expressionist silent fiction movie by Murnau (1926). The paper combines principles of psychocinematics (Shimamura, 2013b), an interdisciplinary scientific field of... more
La evolución de la cultura material estructurada en prácticas sirve de andamiaje a la cognición social y permite elaborar un concepto de cognición social irreducible a la agregación de mentes individuales.
Se pretende ofrecer, a partir de los ensayos de Henri Bergson, una descripción general de la conciencia, su funcionamiento y sus modos, considerada como experiencia cognitiva, sensorial y corporal global.
The ‘extended mind’ thesis asserts that cognitive processes are not bound by the skull or even skin of biological individuals, but actively incorporate environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, media, cultural practices,... more
BOOK REVIEW: Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology by Marc Leman. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2008. 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-12293-1. $43.00/£29.95 (hardback).
RESUMEN: Me ocuparé del tipo de conocimiento que pueden comportar las obras de ficción, si es que –claro está– comportan alguno; sobre el modo en el cual se construyen subjetividad y texto, así como las relaciones entre mundo y lenguaje.... more
Abstract The term embodiment identifies a theory that meaning and semantics cannot be captured by abstract, logical systems, but are dependent on an agent's experience derived from being situated in an environment. This theory has... more
(Abstract pertains to the whole project, not merely this introductory section) Uncovering the legacy of Gregory Bateson: (a) Re-contextualizing the double bind theory of "schizophrenia" (b) The dual nature of the new recursive... more
Rutgers Philosopher Peter Kivy maintains that there is only one foundational kind of meaning: the meaning that we convey in the shared kind of intellect-mediated symbolism that we call 'language'. But, it is precisely by lacking this... more
One is expected to act on the decision s/he has made. In this sense, a decision-maker is cognizant of the fact that the real meaningfulness of her/his decision lies on its actual operationalization. A decision not acted upon is a failed... more
Ecological psychology suggests the environment is experienced by perceivers in terms of their ability to behave within it—or their affordances. The authors used the remembered-affordance paradigm to evaluate this claim in contrast to an... more
This paper argues that there is a conflict between two theses held by John McDowell, namely i) the claim that we are under a standing obligation to revise our beliefs if reflection demands it; and ii) the view that veridical experience is... more
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In this work we will develop the thesis that the concept of dynamical frustration (Binder, 2008), involving the tension between conflicting tendencies in a physical system, is essential when analyzing the cognitive-computational bases of... more
Quadrato Motor Training (QMT) is a specifically-structured walking meditation, aimed at improving reflectivity and lowering habitual thought and movement. Here we set out to examine the possible effect of QMT on reflectivity, employing... more
Preface-Epilogue '...knowledge is not classificatory. It is rather storied.' (Ingold, 2011, 159) The semi-fictional story of Mr. Messy and the Ghost in the Machine (which you may eventually come to, although it may be read without... more