Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action, and cognitive extension
by Clark, Andy
"Studies of mind, thought, and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and in cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly, resisted. The result is a plethora of work on what has become known as embodied, situated, distributed, and even "extended" cognition. Work in this new, loosely knit field depicts thought and reason as in some way inextricably tied to the details …
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- Full title :Supersizing the mind : embodiment, action, and cognitive extension / Andy Clark.
Summary
"Studies of mind, thought, and reason have tended to marginalize the role of bodily form, real-world action, and environmental backdrop. In recent years, both in philosophy and in cognitive science, this tendency has been identified and, increasingly, resisted. The result is a plethora of work on what has become known as embodied, situated, distributed, and even "extended" cognition. Work in this new, loosely knit field depicts thought and reason as in some way inextricably tied to the details of our gross bodily form, our habits of action and intervention, and the enabling web of social, cultural, and technological scaffolding in which we live, move, learn, and think." "Drawing on recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging landscape and a sustained argument in favor of one approach to the key issues. That approach combines the use of representational, computational, and information-theoretic tools with an appreciation of the importance of context, timing, biomechanics, and dynamics. More controversially, it depicts some coalitions of biological and nonbiological resources as the extended cognitive circuitry of individual minds."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxix, 286 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780195333213, 0195333217, 9780199773688, 0199773688
- oclc:ocn711045312
- LC Classification:BD418.3
- Dewey Decimal:128/.2
Table of Contents
Introduction : brainbound versus extended -- From embodiment to cognitive extension -- The active body -- The negotiable body -- Material symbols -- World, Incorporated -- Boundary disputes -- Mind re-bound? -- The cure for cognitive hiccups (HEMC, HEC, HEMC) -- Rediscovering the brain -- The limits of embodiment -- Painting, planning, and perceiving -- Disentangling embodiment -- Conclusions : mind as mashup.
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