Sensorimotor contingencies
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This paper asks about the ways in which embodimentoriented cognitive science contributes to our understanding of phenomenal consciousness. It is first argued that central work in the field of embodied cognitive science does not solve the... more
Anil Seth’s target paper connects the framework of PP (predictive processing) and the FEP (free-energy principle) to cybernetic principles. Exploiting an analogy to theory of science, Seth draws a distinction between three types of active... more
This article surveys and synthesizes dynamic systems models of development from biology, neuroscience, and psychology in order to propose an integrated account of growth, learning, and behavior. Key to this account is the concept of... more
We experience our encounters with the world and others in different degrees of intensity – the presence of things and others is gradual. I introduce this kind of presence as a ubiquitous feature of every phenomenally conscious experience,... more
In 1986 Francisco Varela illustrates the concept of structural coupling presenting Bittorio an environmentally coupled cellular automaton. Taking inspiration from this work, this paper describes the emergent behaviors resulting from the... more
11/04/2022 UPDATE Materialist theories of phenomenal consciousness claim the physical basis of consciousness is to be found only in the brain, and really often in a quite limited subset of brain processes. Defenders of the extended... more
Mirror neuron research has come a long way since the early 90’s, and many theorists are now stressing the heterogeneity and complexity of the sensorimotor properties of fronto-parietal circuits. However, core aspects of the initial... more
Social factors have so far been neglected in embodied theories of perception despite the wealth of phenomenological insights and empirical evidence indicating their importance. I examine evidence from developmental psychology and... more
This paper aims to defend the thesis that we can only perceive what we understand. Such a theory would seem to be unable to account for our learning to perceive what we do not yet understand. To address this objection, the paper presents... more
In response to the cognitivistic paradigm and its problems, the embodied cognition viewpoint was proposed. In robotics, this resulted in a radical move away from higher-level cognitive functions toward direct, almost "brain-less"... more
Since the publication of O'Regan and Noë's original article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2001, which rst set out the sensorimotor account by which sensory experience and motor engagement are inextricably intertwined, there have... more
This article focuses on the question of the function of imitation and whether current accounts of imitative function are consistent with our knowledge about imitation's origins. We first review theories of imitative origin concluding that... more
Contributions by Matthew Ratcliffe, Jan Slaby, Achim Stephan, Riccardo Manzotti, Alice Holzhey-Kunz, Thomas Fuchs, Joerg Fingerhut, Fiorella Battaglia, Arbogast Schmitt, Eva-Maria Engelen, Tanja Klemm, Matthias Jung, Sabine Marienberg.... more
Read only version --> https://rdcu.be/coBvD Many philosophers claim that the neurocomputational framework of predictive processing entails a globally inferentialist and representationalist view of cognition. Here, I contend that this is... more
How should we understand the relationship between conscious perception and action? Does an appeal to action have any place in an account of colour experience? This essay aims to shed light on the first question by giving a positive... more
The sensorimotor theory of perception and consciousness is frequently presented as a variety of anti-representationalist cognitive science, and there is thus a temptation to suppose that those who take representation as bedrock should... more
Can we see the expressiveness of other people's gestures, hear the intentions in their voice, see the emotions in their posture? Traditional theories of social cognition still say we cannot because intentions and emotions for them are... more
The enactivist tradition, out of which neurophenomenology arose, rejects various internalisms – including the representationalist and information-processing metaphors – but remains wedded to one further internalism:the claim that the... more
The optimal power problem seeks to find an optimal profile of active and reactive power generation along with the voltage magnitudes in such a manner as to minimize the total operating cost of electric power system, while satisfying... more
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In this chapter, I put forward and sustain an articulation of the notion of bodily skill based on the ecological psychology, and I show how it is relevant for the debate between Dreyfus and McDowell about the skillful coping and also for... more
How and when do we learn to understand other people’s perspectives and possibly divergent beliefs? This question has elicited much theoretical and empirical research. A puzzling finding has been that toddlers perform well on so-called... more
I strongly agree with Kirchhoff and Hutto that consciousness and embodied action are one and the same, but I disagree when they say this identity cannot be fully explained and must sim- ply be posited. Here I attempt to sketch the... more
With robots leaving factory environments and entering less controlled domains, possibly sharing living space with humans, safety needs to be guaranteed. To this end, some form of awareness of their body surface and the space surrounding... more
The sensorimotor theory of perceptual consciousness offers a form of enactivism in that it stresses patterns of interaction instead of any alleged internal representations of the environment. But how does it relate to forms of enactivism... more
The optimal power problem seeks to find an optimal profile of active and reactive power generation along with the voltage magnitudes in such a manner as to minimize the total operating cost of electric power system, while satisfying... more