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	Embodied philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Likewise, some of embodied philosophy is clearly convergent with postmodernism, feminism, "queer" and other social construction paradigms that discuss socially-enforced metaphorical construction as a product not only of an "embodied" cognitive bias or an "isomorphic" notation bias but also of culture bias.
		In this broader sense, embodied philosophy has most of its influence on political science, on green economists and their search for an "embodied" or "body-respecting" political economy.
		embodiment as localization, although that claim is disputed by those who view that movement as one narrowly opposing just capitalism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Embodied_cognition (441 words)

	Embodied Cognition [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Embodied cognition theorists view cognitivist/classicist accounts as problematic for many reasons, but they are especially concerned that these accounts result in an isolationist assumption that attempts to understand cognition by focusing almost exclusively on an organism's internal cognitive processes.
		The contemporary notion of embodied cognition stands in contrast to the prevailing cognitivist stance which sees the mind as a device to manipulate symbols and is thus concerned with the formal rules and processes by which the symbols appropriately represent the world (xx).
		Yet, embodied cognition theorists question the evolutionary viability of viewing cognition as passive retrieval; they maintain it is too time-consuming and unnecessary for organisms to formulate representations that completely mirror environmental features that are unrelated to the goal-directed activity the organism is currently performing.
	www.iep.utm.edu /e/embodcog.htm (6572 words)

	Fishing for Cognition: Chapter VI
		By "a theory of embodied cognition" I mean a theory of human cognition which explains the properties of individuals (intact with sensory, motor, and other capacities) acting in specific contexts, as a consequence of their engaging a material (and often, socially and historically constructed) situation, informed by some history of such engagement.
		Lacking a formulation of embodied cognition the central role of "culture" in this classical theory of cognition is to provide the "shared knowledge," "common sense assumptions," or more formulaic "cultural models," which organize and provide content for more specific scenarios, schemas, scripts, and goals, which members of a society employ for knowing.
		These understandings, built through embodied action, migrate into the language employed, integrating the linguistic constructs which denote properties of the display with constructs whose meanings are attributed to the fish interpreted to be represented by the display.
	www.dcog.net /~brian/dissertation/VI.html (6694 words)

	POSTHUMAN PERFORMANCE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		She redefines embodiment, contrasting it with the Foucaultian view, and suggests that the idea of the body is definitely socially constructed and normalized.
		Embodiment, for her, is contextual, merged with the particulars of place, time, physiology and culture.
		I consider hyperplastic embodiment to be a process in which human cognition is an embodied process instantiated in incorporating practices; a normative process deployed by inscription and representation within hybrid systems.
	accad.osu.edu /~mbsolano/cord.html (2724 words)

	Robosemiotics and embodied enactive cognition
		Cognitive science and AI research has traditionally, since its beginning in the 1950s, been dominated by the so-called computer metaphor for mind, i.e., the view that the human mind works very much like a computer program.
		Hence, for cognitive scientists the use of embodied, situated agents offers an alternative, bottom-up approach to the study of intelligent behavior in general, and internal representation and sign usage in particular.
		This is due to the fact that they account for both the (long-term) representation of learning experience in connection weights as well as the (short-term) representation of the controlled agent’s current context or immediate past in the form of internal feedback.
	www.library.utoronto.ca /see/SEED/Vol3-3/Ziemke.htm (3509 words)

	Workshop "Embodied Mind/A-Life"
		Embodiment and cognition are two closely intertwined aspects of natural living systems, so closely connected that it has long been discussed whether cognition can exist without a body, and if embodiment can be defined without making reference to a cognitive system (Dautenhahn, 1996, 1999).
		A careful analysis of the functions of brain and body suggests that the conative aspects are of primary relevance to the embodiment of cognition: cognition is necessarily teleologic, and teleology needs at least factually a body.
		The cognitive level is reached when the animal (agent) is able to move not simply by executing a chain of "recognition-triggered-responses" but by making decisions depending on different goals.
	www.ais.fraunhofer.de /~diprimio/kogwis99/papers/kogwisal2.html (1304 words)

	[vslist] 2005 Body & Cognition symposium, Taipei, Taiwan
		Embodied Cognition arose in the 1980s in Cognitive Sciences as a reaction against the classical view of mind.
		In the research on embodied concepts, it is now generally recognized truth meaning results from intrinsic workings of the body and the brain, and human understanding of any target domain is structured first and foremost in the human body and its interaction with the physical world.
		We construct cognitive models that reflect concepts concerned with interaction between the body and the environment and it is this conceptual embodiment that leads to formulation of basic level concepts.
	www.visionscience.com /pipermail/vslist/2004/001074.html (652 words)

	Embodied Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the late 20th century researchers in both science and the humanities recognised that the body was essential to cognition.
		Lakoff and Johnson claim that an “embodied spirituality is…an ecological spirituality” (Lakoff and Johnson, 1999:566), and embodied cognition may play a role in deepening environmental awareness and encouraging activism (Martin 1990, Harris 1996, Harvey 1997).
		The practice of Eco-Paganism, in which embodiment, gender and environment are central, presents an ideal test case to apply these theories through an embodied methodology.
	www.thegreenfuse.org /harris/e-cognition.htm (228 words)

	Causal Structures in Embodied Systems
		An additional problem is that embodiment tends to invite a controversial focus on internal experience, a factor that is not accessible to scientific modelling.
		The paradigm of embodied cognition must switch its focus of inquiry from lower-level, insect-like intelligence, which has dominated earlier research, to vertebrate cognition.
		The central question for an embodied cognitive faculty is that of causal interaction, both at the level of bodily events and at that of mental models.
	www.ercim.org /publication/Ercim_News/enw53/kampis.html (902 words)

	Animation Tutor - Article Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Wilson's (2002) article on six views of embodied cognition can serve as an organizational framework for analyzing the relevance of embodied cognition to particular domains of knowledge.
		The view that cognition is situated has implications for how conceptual knowledge can support procedural knowledge and whether problem solving in the classroom is influenced by real-world constraints.
		Exploring the theoretical implications of embodied cognition in the laboratory and in the classroom is one way for psychologists to have an impact on education.
	www.sci.sdsu.edu /mathtutor/pub-abstract13.html (160 words)

	embodied and situated cognition
		The embodied cognition approach thus moved the modeling of intelligent systems from the study of intricate knowledge-based, representation-rich control systems, to the study of the dynamics of networks of agent and environment components (self-organization).
		Whichever way embodied agents solve a problem, it is done via the construction of their own classifications — given the set of low-level components they have available — as they interact with their environment, and not by externally imposed representations.
		Rather, embodied intelligence in humans develops as children grow in and interact with their environment via a sensory-rich body which is particularly fitted to recognize the statistical regularities of this interaction.
	informatics.indiana.edu /rocha/embrob (3923 words)

	Six Views of Embodied Cognition
		The function of the mind is to guide action, and cognitive mechanisms such as perception and memory must be understood in terms of their ultimate contribution to situation-appropriate behavior.
		A cornerstone of the embodied cognition literature is the claim that cognition is a situated activity (e.g.
		Off-line aspects of embodied cognition, in contrast, include any cognitive activities in which sensory and motor resources are brought to bear on mental tasks whose referents are distant in time and space, or are altogether imaginary.
	philosophy.wisc.edu /shapiro/PHIL951/951articles/wilson.htm (10680 words)

	Embodied Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The symposium addresses varied aspects of adaptive and maladaptive forms of “embodied cognition” from four vantage points: The role of touch in the in the construction of substage 4 of Piaget’s sensorimotor phase; the role of bodily action in the microgenesis of violence, the role of the embodied self in story comprehension in Japanese 4
		This paper will demonstrate that violence can be viewed fruitfully as a natural extension of problem-solving strategies that overly incorporate bodily action as an integral part of the mind, i.e., an embodied cognition perspective.
		Thelen (1994) suggests that embodiment may be at the core of our understanding of literature as well as the real world.
	www.york.cuny.edu /~seitz/JPS2001.htm (1690 words)

	Glacial Erratics: Body in a Coffin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Embodied cognition, for me, represented a way out of that morass: brains with bodies living in the world, participants in very complex and infinite network.
		Poupou's comments about her class and this diatribe about embodied cognition (found by my handy little GoogleTracker whoosit) show that's not really the case.
		I had taken embodied cognition to mean cognition of an individual in their sensory network situated in a world environment; interactive cognition; informed cognition; world conscious cognition.
	www.burningchrome.com:8000 /~cdent/mt/archives/000051.html (1217 words)

	FQS 3(3) Haskell, Linds & Ippolito: Opening Spaces of Possibility: The Enactive as a Qualitative Research Approach
		Embodied action brings forth an awareness of inquiry which is not attached to any one event or concept but is, rather, an un-grounding, as knowing is shaped by our actions with/in the world.
		They propose a new approach in cognitive science referred to as "enactive" where they are trying to recover a view of cognition as embodied action.
		This embodiment is the essence of being that may be expressed through perception or conception.
	qualitative-research.net /fqs-texte/3-02/3-02haskelletal-e.htm (11963 words)

	artigo cognition Norma Joseph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The evidence from cognitive science, the science of the mind and brain, plays its crucial role: concepts, language, reason and feeling are embodied in the deepest way.
		Using tools of the emerging field of cognitive linguistics, I analyze the foundations/research of this concept, raising important issues of cognition, the mind and the notion of time flow through the time-space case study.
		The emerging field of cognitive linguistics has confirmed that an important amount of abstract thought is unconscious, that is, it happens below the level of awareness and therefore is often beyond introspection.
	www.unigranrio.br /letras/revista/textonorma.html (1688 words)

	Abstract
		Signed languages constitute a rich and fertile source of data for the investigation of embodied cognition and mental imagery.
		Signed languages are articulated by movements of the hands, face, and body, and the effects of mental imagery and embodied cognition can be directly observed within many linguistic domains.
		For example, a narrative technique that is extremely common in sign languages is the use of referential shift to express direct quotations and to convey actions from a particular point of view.
	psy.ucsd.edu /~kemmorey/spacecog/JMI.abs.html (1208 words)

	Models of Self-Organizing Ontological Development for Autonomous Adaptive Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The objective of this research is to develop autonomous agent architectures inspired from bottom-up neurological theories of cognition.
		Some work has already been done using such models of cognition to demonstrate their power and ability to develop embodied categories of their temporal sensory environment simply by experiencing the environment through one or more appropriate sensory modalities (Kozma and Freeman 2000a, 2000b; Edelman 1987; Pfeifer and Verschure 1992).
		The same sorts of interactive emergence that enable the formation of embodied categories may also be capable of developing emergent patterns of behavior that self-organize into increasingly effective skills, strategies and goals for coping with the environmental niche.
	cnd.memphis.edu /sodas/publications/sodas1.htm (2644 words)

	rafael núñez - publications
		Núñez R. Embodied Cognition and the Nature of Mathematics: Language, Gesture, and Abstraction.
		Núñez, R., Edwards, L., and Matos, J-F. Embodied Cognition as Grounding for Situatedness and Context in Mathematics Education.
		Núñez, R. Educación matemática y ciencia cognitiva contemporánea: Reflexiones sobre la teoría del "embodied cognition" [Mathematics education and contemporary cognitive science: Reflections on the theory of embodied cognition].
	cogsci.ucsd.edu /~nunez/web/publications.html (1709 words)

	AI & Embodied Cognition
		Embodied Cognition in Animals and Artifacts (1996), Kerstin Dautenhahn
		Studying the Role of Embodiment in Cognition (1997), Maja J. Mataric
		Workshop on Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (EDEC-2001), Beijing, August 27, 2001.
	www.geocities.com /fastiland/embodiment.html (760 words)

	Daniel Richardson - research into embodied cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For example, I am studying how the location of spoken information is spatially indexed, how listening to different linguistic forms affect the way a scene is scanned, and how the moment by moment understanding between two conversants is reflected in the relationship between their eye movements.
		This work is based on my broader interest in how cognition exploits (or perhaps emerges from) the stability of the external world and the mechanisms of perception and action used to interact with that world.
		Following work in cognitive linguistics and Barsalou's (1999) 'perceptual symbol systems theory' we are finding experimental evidence for a schematic, spatial component to the representation of both concrete and abstract verbs.
	www-psych.stanford.edu /~richardson/research.html (1428 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Embodied cognition started out as a radical view that pushed the claim that all of cognition should be interpreted as on-line perception-action coupling.
		However, against this radical interpretation it is often held that it gives only a limited view of the mind, which must be complemented by classical notions of cognition.
		So, the current rise of embodied cognition often goes hand in hand with an important dilution of this original claim and its promise of a farreaching conceptual shift concerning the notion of cognition itself.
	www.illc.uva.nl /dip/past-lectures/dip191104.html (130 words)

	Embodied Cognition and Action (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The role of physical embodiment in cognition has long been the subject of debate.
		It is largely accepted in AI that embodiment has strong implications on the control strategies for generating purposive and intelligent behavior in the world.
		In that effort we draw from AI, ethology, neuroscience, and other sources in order to focus on the implications of embodiment in cognition and action, and explore work that has been done in the areas of applying physical metaphors to more abstract higher-level cognition.
	www.aaai.org /Press/Reports/Symposia/Fall/fs-96-02.html (559 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Kant, Immanuel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The second was that the sluggishness of the body, which is caused by the body’s specific material constitution, impedes the ability of the soul to think.
		If cognition is viewed as a succession of mental states, Kant’s claim was that this succession depends causally on a corresponding succession of bodily processes.
		Thus Kant’s account of "embodied cognition" did not merely assert that the quality of the sensory material provided by the body affects the quality of cognition, but he argued that the soul is dependent for any change—and thus for cognition, which involves a temporal sequence of mental states—on the successive states of the body.
	www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/kant.html (2237 words)

	Situated and Embodied Cognition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As a consequence, traditional cognitive scientific notions of, for example, internal representation and computation have come under attack, and there is a growing interest in both the bodily/biological mechanisms underlying cognition and the role of the environment (including other agents, artefacts, etc.).
		However, while there is much agreement in the situated/embodied cognitive science community that the traditional view of cognition as computation is flawed, or at least incomplete, there is less agreement in what exactly the fundamentals of the new approach are.
		The Cognitive Systems Research journal (editors-in-chief: Ron Sun, Vasant Honavar and Gregg Oden) is published by Elsevier Science, in both archival print volumes and in electronic form on the web.
	www.ida.his.se /ida/~tom/SEC.html (602 words)

	Minimum Conditions for Embodied Cognition
		We conclude that bacteria and other unicellular organisms are autonomous and social beings with a complex behaviour which insinuates cognitive abilities.
		As they are the smallest and earliest known living systems, this suggests the (radical) conclusion that life and cognition can be considered as identical (synonymous).
		While the first point is essential in order to define clearly minimum conditions (primitives or building blocks) for embodied cognition, the second is necessary for identifying and validating possible (if any) composition rules governing the "emergence” of more powerful forms of cognition.
	www.ais.fraunhofer.de /~diprimio/kogwis99/papers/lmdp.html (693 words)

	[No title]
		The Cognitive Science Department is a new department that anticipates taking its first class of doctoral students in the Fall of 2003.
		Acapulco, Mexico Computational models of cognitive agents that incorporate a wide range of cognitive functionalities (such as a variety of memory/representation, various types of learning, and sensory motor capabilities) have been developed in both AI and cognitive science.
		Against this background, this workshop seeks to bring together cognitive scientists and AI researchers, with a wide range of background and expertise, to discuss research problems in understanding cognition at the individual level as well as at the collective level.
	act.psy.cmu.edu /pipermail/act-r-users/2002-November.txt (3410 words)

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