Traditional cognitive science ('cognitivism') is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained by classical AI and computational theory. The authors in this volume develop a critique of cognitivism and introduce an alternative approach -- which owes more to evolutionary biology, embodied robotics, phenomenology and dynamical systems.
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"This collection has a lot going for it and is deserving of a wide readership." -- Anthony Chemero, Philosophical Psychology
A notable collection of essays that will give much pleasure to those who have been missing the living body - and its actions and reactions - in contemporary cognitive and neural studies; a must read for those who haven't. -- Antonio Damasio
Just as the 1990s were the Decade of the Brain, many have argued that we are now entering the Decade of the Mind. Meeting such a challenge requires that we transcend the crude reductionism and narrow cognitivism that has characterized much of the brain and behavioural sciences of the past century. Reclaiming Cognition teaches us that minds are not architectural modular structures that deal in information, but are constituted by the dynamic interactions of perceiver and percept, knower and that which is to be known - socially, developmentally and evolutionarily formed. -- Steven Rose
The evidence from all over the cognitive sciences is overwhelming: Conceptual systems and language are embodied in the deepest way, shaped by the nature of our brains, our bodies, and our everyday functioning in the world. Reclaiming Cognition helps to wash away the old view of the mind as abstract and disembodied, of thought as symbol manipulation - something a computer could do - and of emotion as separate from reason. -- George Lakoff
This collection is a valuable contribution to the elaboration and application of an understanding of mind and brain as situated and embodied. As such, it is timely and important. Although it is unlikely anyone will agree with all the papers, together they pose a challenge every cognitive scientist, neuroscientist and philosopher has to face. -- Hubert Dreyfus
Views of the mind as essentially embodied and embedded in its environment have recently made powerful advances in understanding perception and action and now have taken on cognition. This timely and richly interdisciplinary collection of essays, by innovative thinkers, displays the current exuberance of theoretical alternatives to the computational mainstream. -- Susan Hurley
A notable collection of essays that will give much pleasure to those who have been missing the living body - and its actions and reactions - in contemporary cognitive and neural studies; a must read for those who haven't. -- Antonio Damasio
Just as the 1990s were the Decade of the Brain, many have argued that we are now entering the Decade of the Mind. Meeting such a challenge requires that we transcend the crude reductionism and narrow cognitivism that has characterized much of the brain and behavioural sciences of the past century. Reclaiming Cognition teaches us that minds are not architectural modular structures that deal in information, but are constituted by the dynamic interactions of perceiver and percept, knower and that which is to be known - socially, developmentally and evolutionarily formed. -- Steven Rose
The evidence from all over the cognitive sciences is overwhelming: Conceptual systems and language are embodied in the deepest way, shaped by the nature of our brains, our bodies, and our everyday functioning in the world. Reclaiming Cognition helps to wash away the old view of the mind as abstract and disembodied, of thought as symbol manipulation - something a computer could do - and of emotion as separate from reason. -- George Lakoff
This collection is a valuable contribution to the elaboration and application of an understanding of mind and brain as situated and embodied. As such, it is timely and important. Although it is unlikely anyone will agree with all the papers, together they pose a challenge every cognitive scientist, neuroscientist and philosopher has to face. -- Hubert Dreyfus
Views of the mind as essentially embodied and embedded in its environment have recently made powerful advances in understanding perception and action and now have taken on cognition. This timely and richly interdisciplinary collection of essays, by innovative thinkers, displays the current exuberance of theoretical alternatives to the computational mainstream. -- Susan Hurley
About the Author
Walter J. Freeman is a professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught brain science for forty years. He is the author of several hundred articles and three books, "Mass Action in the Nervous System, Societies of Brains," and "Neuro Dynamics."
Nunez studied psychology in Chile and received his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Freiburg. He has had a number of Visiting Scho lar appointments and is currently based at the University of California, Berkeley.
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This is a landmark book and is worth reading because it is important. It argues against the popularly accepted view that the human mind is like a computer and puts forward the embodied, emergent and socially influenced perspectives. Once everyone figures out what these words mean there will be a revolution in our ability to understand our minds.Most of the papers in the book are well written. There are a couple near the end that are poorly written. Freeman is a pioneer and Nunez is a revolutionary (see his work with Lakoff - "Where Mathematics Comes From.")
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neural mass action, phenomenal fabric, bodily grounded experience, dynamic congruency, neural mass activity, perceptual system functioning, sculpting mechanism, strict cognitivism, attractor ruins, chaotic itinerancy, visuomotor action, conscious visual awareness, gesture production, organismic functioning, reclaiming cognition, perceived heaviness, contrast functioning, dynamic touch, postural attitude, attractor landscape, symbol grounding problem, bodily orientation, neural masses, coexisting attractors, desirable input Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Oxford University Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, Academic Press, Level One, University of Chicago Press, Time Events Are Things In Space, Psychological Review, Basic Books, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin, Level Two, Journal of Neuroscience, University of California Press, American Psychologist, Child Development, Clarendon Press, Princeton University Press, San Diego, Scientific American, Susan Hurley, American Journal of Physiology, John Locke, John Wiley New!
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- Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana in Front Matter, page 59, and page 235
- Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought by David McNeill in Front Matter, and page 39
- Concepts and Conceptual Development: Ecological and Intellectual Factors in Categorization (Emory Symposia in Cognition) by Ulric Neisser on page 76, and page 77
- Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain and Behavior (Complex Adaptive Systems) by J. A. Scott Kelso on page 39, and page 277
- Neural Darwinism: The Theory Of Neuronal Group Selection by Gerald Edelman on page 17, and page 170
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- The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects by Dai Rees on page 59
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