Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Principles of Minimal Cognition: Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can alread...

Casting Cognition as Sensorimotor Coordination

Within the cognitive sciences, cognition tends to be interpreted from an anthropocentric perspective, involving a stringent set of human capabilities. Instead, we suggest that cognition is better explicated as a much more general biological phenomenon, allowing the lower bound of cognition to extend much further down the phylogenetic scale. We argue that elementary forms of cognition can alread...

Team communication and coordination as distributed cognition

In this paper we argue that it is necessary to study the communicative and coordinative practices in order to understand how the successful team operation of dynamic systems is constituted. We present a fourfold criticism of the view where communication is treated as the transmission of information and where coordination is regarded as the transfer of commands between individuals. Instead we ad...

Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition

Embodied Cognition as Interactive Cognition

What abstract conditions concerning embodiment are necessary, together with formal conditions, for a specification of sufficient conditions for cognition? A material environment does more than realise one formal specification. There is no one base specification on which all the formal specifications that it realises supervene. Thus a relationship with a material environment may defy comprehensi...