Smooth coping: an embodied, Heideggerian approach to dual-process theory

Dual-process theories divide cognition into two kinds of processes: Type 1 processes that are autonomous and do not use working memory, 2 decoupled from the immediate situation memory. Often, also fast, high capacity, parallel, nonconscious, biased, contextualized, associative, while typically slow, low serial, conscious, normative, abstract, rule-based. This article argues for an embodied dual-process theory based on phenomenology Martin Heidegger. According to Heidegger, basis human agents’ encounters with world is in a prereflective, pragmatically engaged disposition marked by readiness-to-hand ( Zuhandenheit), sometimes equated “smooth coping.” Examples smooth coping include walking, throwing ball, other actions require reflective thought. I argue primarily consists processes. The Heideggerian model yields distinctly different hypotheses Hubert Dreyfus’ coping, will critically engage work.