Evolutionary convergence and biologically embodied cognition

Evolutionary convergence and biologically embodied cognition.

The study of evolutionary patterns of cognitive convergence would be greatly helped by a clear demarcation of cognition. Cognition is often used as an equivalent of mind, making it difficult to pin down empirically or to apply it confidently beyond the human condition. Recent developments in embodied cognition and philosophy of biology now suggest an interpretation that dissociates cognition fr...

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...