Supersizing the mind: embodiment, action, and cognitive extension

by Clark, Andy

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This is a comprehensive tour of work in embodied and situated cognition. It describes and defends one clear option among a large and unruly space of alternatives.

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  • Full title :Supersizing the mind : embodiment, action, and cognitive extension / Andy Clark.

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This is a comprehensive tour of work in embodied and situated cognition. It describes and defends one clear option among a large and unruly space of alternatives.

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  • Publication Date:2008.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xxix, 286 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • oclc:ocn294759155
  • LC Classification:BD418.3
  • Dewey Decimal:128/.2

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: BRAINBOUND Versus EXTENDED -- I: FROM EMBODIMENT TO COGNITIVE EXTENSION -- 1. The Active Body -- 1.1 A Walk on the Wild Side -- 1.2 Inhabited Interaction -- 1.3 Active Sensing -- 1.4 Distributed Functional Decomposition -- 1.5 Sensing for Coupling -- 1.6 Information Self-structuring -- 1.7 Perceptual Experience and Sensorimotor Dependencies -- 1.8 Time and Mind -- 1.9 Dynamics and "Soft" Computation -- 1.10 Out from the Bedrock -- 2. The Negotiable Body -- 2.1 Fear and Loathing -- 2.2 What's in an Interface? -- 2.3 New Systemic Wholes -- 2.4 Substitutes -- 2.5 Incorporation Versus Use -- 2.6 Toward Cognitive Extension -- 2.7 Three Grades of Embodiment -- 3. Material Symbols -- 3.1 Language as Scaffolding -- 3.2 Augmenting Reality -- 3.3 Sculpting Attention -- 3.4 Hybrid Thoughts? -- 3.5 From Translation to Coordination -- 3.6 Second-order Cognitive Dynamics -- 3.7 Self-made Minds -- 4. World, Incorporated -- 4.1 Cognitive Niche Construction -- 4.2 Cognition in the Globe: A Cameo -- 4.3 Thinking Space -- 4.4 Epistemic Engineers -- 4.5 Exploitative Representation and Wide Computation -- 4.6 Tetris: The Update -- 4.7 The Swirl of Organiz…

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Subjects

Cognition distribuée Distributed cognition Mind and body Philosophie de l'esprit Philosophy of mind

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Clark, Andy

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