Enaction toward a new paradigm for cognitive science
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 &#...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass.
MIT Press
2010
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| Summary: | 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', 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 |
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| Item Description: | "A Bradford book.". - "Based on an International CNRS Summer School organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARC), held from 29 May to 03 June 2006, Ile d'Oléron, France"--Text |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 463 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 0262289792 9780262289795 |