Agency From a Radical Embodied Standpoint: An Ecological-Enactive Proposal

Robosemiotics and embodied enactive cognition

Much research in cognitive science and AI has recently been devoted to the study of adaptive autonomous agents, such as robots and artificial life systems. Such agents are typically said to ‘learn, ‘develop’ and ‘evolve’ in close interaction with their environments. It could be argued that these self-organizing properties solve the problem of representation grounding in AI research, and thus al...

The Social ROI:
 Successful Social Media Measurement From an Agency Standpoint

This research analyzed the viewpoints of advertising agency professionals regarding the successful monitoring and measurement of social media for clients. Research was conducted through one-on-one interviews with advertising professionals. This study found that successful campaigns are fully integrated, with social media possessing transparent and responsive characteristics and serving as an am...

The Embodied Brain: An Argument from Neuroscience for Radical Embodied Cognition

In this programmatic paper we develop an account of embodied cognition based on the inseparability of cognitive and emotional processing in the brain. We argue that emotions are best understood in terms of action readiness [1, 2] in the context of the organism’s ongoing skillful engagement with the environment [3, 4, 5]. States of action readiness involve the whole living body of the organism, ...

Embodied Agency and Habitual Selves

Commentary: The Embodied Brain: Towards a Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience

There is a tension between the embodied approach to cognition (e.g., Varela et al., 1991; Anderson, 2003; Wilson and Foglia, 2011; Myachykov et al., 2014) and the neurocentric way of thinking. It manifests in the research on mirror neurons (Caramazza et al., 2014), action language understanding (Meteyard et al., 2012), or decisionmaking (Kubanek and Snyder, 2015), to mention just a few examples...