kant on the embodied cognition

On the need for Embodied and Dis-Embodied Cognition

This essay proposes and defends a pluralistic theory of conceptual embodiment. Our concepts are represented in at least two ways: (i) through sensorimotor simulations of our interactions with objects and events and (ii) through sensorimotor simulations of natural language processing. Linguistic representations are "dis-embodied" in the sense that they are dynamic and multimodal but, in contrast...

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...

Six Views of Embodied Cognition Six Views of Embodied Cognition

Embodied cognition: the other morphology

The very term ‘neuromorphic engineering’ implies that the structural details of neural circuits cannot be abstracted away in digital simulations: in other words, morphology (the form and function of biological neurons) matters. In embodied cognition,1 this message is also being proclaimed: it is now recognized that the agent’s physical body is plays a major role in intelligent action, and canno...

The poverty of embodied cognition.

In recent years, there has been rapidly growing interest in embodied cognition, a multifaceted theoretical proposition that (1) cognitive processes are influenced by the body, (2) cognition exists in the service of action, (3) cognition is situated in the environment, and (4) cognition may occur without internal representations. Many proponents view embodied cognition as the next great paradigm...