Enaction

Author : John Stewart,Olivier Gapenne,Ezequiel A. Di Paolo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262526012

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Enaction by John Stewart,Olivier Gapenne,Ezequiel A. Di Paolo Pdf

A comprehensive presentation of an approach that proposes a new account of cognition at levels from the cellular to the social. This book presents the framework for a new, comprehensive approach to cognitive science. The proposed paradigm, enaction, offers an alternative to cognitive science's classical, first-generation Computational Theory of Mind (CTM). Enaction, first articulated by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch in The Embodied Mind (MIT Press, 1991), breaks from CTM's formalisms of information processing and symbolic representations to view cognition as grounded in the sensorimotor dynamics of the interactions between a living organism and its environment. A living organism enacts the world it lives in; its embodied action in the world constitutes its perception and thereby grounds its cognition. Enaction offers a range of perspectives on this exciting new approach to embodied cognitive science. Some chapters offer manifestos for the enaction paradigm; others address specific areas of research, including artificial intelligence, developmental psychology, neuroscience, language, phenomenology, and culture and cognition. Three themes emerge as testimony to the originality and specificity of enaction as a paradigm: the relation between first-person lived experience and third-person natural science; the ambition to provide an encompassing framework applicable at levels from the cell to society; and the difficulties of reflexivity. Taken together, the chapters offer nothing less than the framework for a far-reaching renewal of cognitive science. Contributors Renaud Barbaras, Didier Bottineau, Giovanna Colombetti, Diego Cosmelli, Hanne De Jaegher, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo. Andreas K. Engel, Olivier Gapenne, Véronique Havelange, Edwin Hutchins, Michel Le Van Quyen, Rafael E. Núñez, Marieke Rohde, Benny Shanon, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Adam Sheya, Linda B. Smith, John Stewart, Evan Thompson

Author : Domenico Masciotra,Wolff-Michael Roth,Denise Morel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087901004

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Enaction by Domenico Masciotra,Wolff-Michael Roth,Denise Morel Pdf

This book is addressed to all those in the field of education or related fields, including teachers, teacher-trainers, consultants, and researchers, who are interested in exploring the question, “What does it mean to know, to learn and to teach?”

Author : Ezequiel A. Di Paolo,Manuel Heras-Escribano,Anthony Chemero,Marek McGann
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889664313

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Enaction and Ecological Psychology: Convergences and Complementarities by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo,Manuel Heras-Escribano,Anthony Chemero,Marek McGann Pdf

Author : Marieke Rohde
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789491216343

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ENACTION, EMBODIMENT, EVOLUTIONARY ROBOTICS by Marieke Rohde Pdf

This is an unusual book. It launches a new style of research into the nature of the mind, a style that pro?ciently uncovers, explores and exploits the synergies between complex systems thinking, sophisticated theoretical critique, synthetic modeling technologies and experimental work. Rather than adopting a grandiose programmatic approach, Marieke Rohde presents us with a pragmatic conjunction of elements, each of them strongly feeding off the others and making it impossible to shelf her work strictly under any one rubric such as psychology, robotics, arti?cial intelligence or philosophy of mind. Perhaps the least unjust choice is to call this a work of new cognitive science. It is yesterday’s news to remark on how our conceptual framework for understanding c- plex systems is changing. There is a recognized need to supplement the scienti?c categories of mechanistic, XIX century thought for new ways of thinking about non-linear forms of interaction and inter-relation between events and processes at multiple scales. Since the times of cybernetics and in parallel to the development of the computer as a scienti?c tool, we have witnessed several proposals for “revolutionary” ways of dealing with complexity: catastrophe theory, general systems theory, chaos, self-organized criticality, complex n- works, etc. Despite not always ful?lling their stated potential, these ideas have helped us increase our capability to understand complex systems and have in general left us with new concepts, new tools and new ways of formulating questions. This conceptual change, however, has not been homogeneous.

Author : Christoph Durt,Thomas Fuchs,Christian Tewes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262549257

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Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture by Christoph Durt,Thomas Fuchs,Christian Tewes Pdf

The first interdisciplinary investigation of the cultural context of enactive embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological. Recent accounts of cognition attempt to overcome the limitations of traditional cognitive science by reconceiving cognition as enactive and the cognizer as an embodied being who is embedded in biological, psychological, and cultural contexts. Cultural forms of sense-making constitute the shared world, which in turn is the origin and place of cognition. This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection on the cultural context of embodiment, offering perspectives that range from the neurophilosophical to the anthropological. The book brings together new contributions by some of the most renowned scholars in the field and the latest results from up-and-coming researchers. The contributors explore conceptual foundations, drawing on work by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre, and respond to recent critiques. They consider whether there is something in the self that precedes intersubjectivity and inquire into the relation between culture and consciousness, the nature of shared meaning and social understanding, the social dimension of shame, and the nature of joint affordances. They apply the notion of radical enactive cognition to evolutionary anthropology, and examine the concept of the body in relation to culture in light of studies in such fields as phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psychopathology. Through such investigations, the book breaks ground for the study of the interplay of embodiment, enaction, and culture. Contributors Mark Bickhard, Ingar Brinck, Anna Ciaunica, Hanne De Jaegher, Nicolas de Warren, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Christoph Durt, John Z. Elias, Joerg Fingerhut, Aikaterini Fotopoulou, Thomas Fuchs, Shaun Gallagher, Vittorio Gallese, Duilio Garofoli, Katrin Heimann, Peter Henningsen, Daniel D. Hutto, Laurence J. Kirmayer, Alba Montes Sánchez, Dermot Moran, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Matthew Ratcliffe, Vasudevi Reddy, Zuzanna Rucińska, Alessandro Salice, Glenda Satne, Heribert Sattel, Christian Tewes, Dan Zahavi

Author : Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031202827

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Enactive Cognition in Place by Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro Pdf

This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science. Miguel A. Sepúlveda-Pedro offers an unprecedented interpretation of the central claims of the enactive approach to cognition, supported by contemporary works of ecological psychology and phenomenology. The enactive approach conceives cognition as sense-making, a phenomenon emerging from the organizational nature of the living body that evolves in human beings through sensorimotor, intercorporeal, and linguistic interactions with the environment. From this standpoint, Sepúlveda-Pedro suggests incorporating three new theses into the theoretical body of the enactive approach: sense-making and cognition fundamentally consist of processes of norm development; the environment, cognitive agents actually interact with, is an active ecological field enacted in their historical past; and sense-making occurs in a domain consisting of multiple normative dimensions that the author names enactive place.

Author : M. Cappucio,T. Froese,Massimiliano Cappuccio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137363367

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Enactive Cognition at the Edge of Sense-Making by M. Cappucio,T. Froese,Massimiliano Cappuccio Pdf

The enactive approach replaces the classical computer metaphor of mind with emphasis on embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Researchers from a range of disciplines unite to address the challenge of how to account for the more uniquely human aspects of cognition, including the abstract and the nonsensical.

Author : Department of Management Studies,
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132207467

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Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Department of Management Studies, Pdf

Modern technologies are central to creation of wealth through business expansion leading to economic development. This is visible in the fast-paced technology-induced economic growth experienced by most countries, especially by rapidly growing economies such as India, China, Brazil, South Korea, among others. Increasing individual scientific contribution, nurturing entrepreneurial talent, promoting innovative competence, strategically prioritizing and investing in technologies and enhancing national economic wealth are some of the important Technology Management goals. Technology Management has emerged as a strategic and knowledge domain of interest to academicians, practitioners, and policy makers across the globe. Technology Management has also evolved into an inter-disciplinary concern which requires national and international collaborations and exchange of insights. Keeping this objective in mind the International Conference on Technology Management is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a leader in research and education in Technology Management for the last several decades. This conference aims at integrating experiences of academicians, industry leaders, Technology Managers and Innovators towards effective knowledge creation and economic development. The contributions of the present volume are presented at the International Conference on Technology Management-2012 during 18-20 July 2012.

Author : Wilhelm Schäfer,Pere Botella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540604065

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Software Engineering - ESEC '95 by Wilhelm Schäfer,Pere Botella Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC '95, held in Sitges near Barcelona, Spain, in September 1995. The ESEC conferences are the premier European platform for the discussion of academic research and industrial use of software engineering technology. The 29 revised full papers were carefully selected from more than 150 submissions and address all current aspects of relevance. Among the topics covered are business process (re-)engineering, real-time, software metrics, concurrency, version and configuration management, formal methods, design process, program analysis, software quality, and object-oriented software development.

Author : Glenna Batson,Margaret Wilson
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783202362

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Body and Mind in Motion by Glenna Batson,Margaret Wilson Pdf

Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in a pas de deux for more than four decades. The rich interchange of somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that substantiates these ideas through the findings of twentieth-century scientific advances has been missing. This book fills that gap and brings to light contemporary discoveries of neuroscience and somatic education as they relate to dance. Drawing from the burgeoning field of “embodiment”—itself an idea at the intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts, and technologies—Body and Mind in Motion highlights the relevance of somatic education within dance education, dance science, and body-mind studies.

Author : Elisabetta Di Nitto,Alfonso Fuggetta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0792380908

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Process Technology by Elisabetta Di Nitto,Alfonso Fuggetta Pdf

Process Technology brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Process Technology serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Author : Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson,Stefan Kopp,Stacy Marsella,Kristinn R. Thorisson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642239731

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Intelligent Virtual Agents by Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson,Stefan Kopp,Stacy Marsella,Kristinn R. Thorisson Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011, held in Reykjavik, Island, in September 2011. The 18 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented together with 25 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social and dramatic interaction; guides and relational agents; nonverbal behavior; adaptation and coordination; listening and feedback; frameworks and tools; cooperation and copresence; emotion; poster abstracts.

Author : Francisco J. Varela,Evan Thompson,Eleanor Rosch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262529365

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The Embodied Mind, revised edition by Francisco J. Varela,Evan Thompson,Eleanor Rosch Pdf

A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential. Through this cross-fertilization of disparate fields of study, The Embodied Mind introduced a new form of cognitive science called “enaction,” in which both the environment and first person experience are aspects of embodiment. However, enactive embodiment is not the grasping of an independent, outside world by a brain, a mind, or a self; rather it is the bringing forth of an interdependent world in and through embodied action. Although enacted cognition lacks an absolute foundation, the book shows how that does not lead to either experiential or philosophical nihilism. Above all, the book's arguments were powered by the conviction that the sciences of mind must encompass lived human experience and the possibilities for transformation inherent in human experience. This revised edition includes substantive introductions by Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch that clarify central arguments of the work and discuss and evaluate subsequent research that has expanded on the themes of the book, including the renewed theoretical and practical interest in Buddhism and mindfulness. A preface by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program, contextualizes the book and describes its influence on his life and work.

Author : Anneke Smelik
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and science
ISBN : 9783899717563

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The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture by Anneke Smelik Pdf

Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the scientific imaginary that is the result of the profound effects of science upon the imagination, and conversely, of the imagination in and upon science. As scientific developments in genetics occur and information technology and cybernetics open up new possibilities of intervention in human lives, cultural theorists have explored the notion of the posthuman. The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture analyses figurations of the posthu-man in history and philosophy, as well as in its utopian and dystopian forms in art and popular culture. The authors thus address the blurring boundaries between art and science in diverse media like science fiction film, futurist art, video art and the new phenomenon of bio-art. In their evaluations of the scientific imaginary in visual culture, the authors engage critically with current scientific and technological concerns.

Author : Hye Young Kim
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781498554664

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We as Self by Hye Young Kim Pdf

We as Self argues for a notion of we-ness based not on a self-centered or a self-less point of view, in which the “we” is only either a collection of individuals or an anonymous whole, but on “relation.” This relation is pre-subjective, meaning that the conscious, reflective, subjective self is not the conceptual basis of the relation. The irreducible metaphysical distinction between self and other is always there, but the awareness of it is not prior to this relation, which is an ontological pre-condition of self. Hye Young Kim demonstrates that the distinction and unity of self and other in this relation can be comprehended spatially by applying knot logic. The author analyzes certain linguistic practices in Korean to show one representation of pre-subjective we-ness in language, but not in an ethnographical manner. By doing so, the author criticizes and challenges the Eurocentric tendency of philosophy and contributes to efforts to expand diversity in philosophy.