Does Embeddedness Tell Against Computationalism? A Tale of Bees and Sea Hares
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There is a tendency in the cognitive sciences to emphasize that cognition is embedded in a world and intrinsically embodied. In a sense it is uncontroversial that cognition is embedded. However, it is not obvious what the best explanatory framework to understand embeddedness is. Tim Van Gelder and Randy Beer, among others, take it that embeddedness calls for a dynamics perspective and at the same time tells against computationalism: If we want to understand how brains are coupled with their environments, the dynamicist framework is the best, since the traditional computational one seems to be inadequate to capture this kind of phenomena. This paper gives grounds to reject this argument. By focussing on two casestudies, it argues that, on the one hand, the dynamicist framework is not sufficient to understand embeddedness; on the other, the computationalist framework is resilient and is still necessary even to understand a phenomenon involved in embeddedness such as brain-environment coupling. The conclusion is drawn that embeddedness does not provide telling evidence against computationalism.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009