In this paper we consider the way in which two representational forms, scenarios and design breakdowns, which have emerged in the tradition of participatory design are relevant within the recent commercial emphasis on rapid application development (RAD). RAD is a contingent approach to interactive software development that is characterised by large amounts of user involvement, incremental proto...

Thinking about the representational qualities of maps and models allows one to offer a new perspective on the nature of mindreading. The recent critiques of our dominant paradigms for mindreading, theory theory and simulation theory, by enactivists such as Daniel Hutto reveal a flaw in the standard options for thinking about how we think about others. Views that rely on theorizing or simulation...

The present study aimed to investigate whether human body forms--like human faces--undergo holistic processing. Evidence for holistic face processing comes from the face composite effect: two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different if they are presented with different bottom parts. This effect disappears if both bottom halves are shifted laterally (misaligned) or if the ...

objective(s) plasma leptin exists in protein-bound and free forms, which may affect its hormonal bioactivity. the free and bound forms are changed by the body weight. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of metformin on bound and free plasma leptin concentration. materials and methods subjects recruited from yazd diabetes research centre, yazd university of medical sciences. the...

This paper presents how non-representational views of cognition can inform interaction design as it moves from traditional graphical user interfaces to more bodily forms of interaction such as gesture or movement tracking. We argue that the true value of these “bodily” interfaces is that they can tap our prior skills for interacting in the world. However, these skills are highly non-representat...

A weak version of the life-mind continuity thesis entails that every living system also has a basic mind (with non-representational form intentionality). The strong same concepts are sufficient to explain minds states) central understanding non-basic representational states). We argue recent work on free energy principle supports following claims with respect thesis: (i) there is between life a...

According to the mental continuity claim (MCC), human mental faculties are physical and beneficial to human survival, so they must have evolved gradually from ancestral forms and we should expect to see their precursors across species. Materialism of mind coupled with Darwin’s evolutionary theory leads directly to such claims and even today arguments for animal mental properties are often prese...

The issue of the nature of the processes or ‘mechanisms’ that underlie scientific cognition is a fundamental problem for cognitive science, as is how these facilitate and constrain scientific practices for science studies. A full theory of human cognition requires understanding the nature of what is one of its most explicitly constructed, abstract and creative forms of knowing. A rich and nuanc...