Complexity, Emergence and Embodied Cognition in Education

Emergence and Development of Embodied Cognition (edec2001)

Cognitive science research in the last twenty-five years has provided considerable evidence that reason is embodied. The neural architectures that evolved to produce perception, sensation, and bodily movement are at the heart of what we experience as rational inference, conceptualization, and meaning construction. Metaphor theory and mental space theory played a significant role in showing the ...

kant on the embodied cognition

Embodied and Situated Cognition

kant on the embodied cognition

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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...