Thanks for this. Very interesting. Where does Embodied/Enactive cognition and the 4E approach fit? Seems pretty complimentary to what people like Francisco Verala/Stephen Gallagher, etc have been talking about.
Thanks for the kind words, and the great question. My quick thoughts:
1. I think Cisek is pretty firmly in the "embodied/enactive" camp, given his focus on the brain as a control system for (embodied, enacted) behavior. He also suggests AI will also need to be embodied.
2. Conversely, I think both Heyes and Donald would be sympathetic to cognition as "embedded" in cultural institutions and "enacted" through cultural practices. Education in the form of explicit teaching might fall into this category.
3. As for me, I ask...why not both? I'm with the embodied 4E crowd to the extent they are saying, "hey, this computational obsession has gone too far, there are other things happening in our headspace that matter too." But I think the most important, or at least the most interesting, aspects of human cognition arise predominately from our socio-cultural practices, rather than biological determinism.
I probably need to write a full essay about all this!
Thanks for this. Very interesting. Where does Embodied/Enactive cognition and the 4E approach fit? Seems pretty complimentary to what people like Francisco Verala/Stephen Gallagher, etc have been talking about.
Thanks for the kind words, and the great question. My quick thoughts:
1. I think Cisek is pretty firmly in the "embodied/enactive" camp, given his focus on the brain as a control system for (embodied, enacted) behavior. He also suggests AI will also need to be embodied.
2. Conversely, I think both Heyes and Donald would be sympathetic to cognition as "embedded" in cultural institutions and "enacted" through cultural practices. Education in the form of explicit teaching might fall into this category.
3. As for me, I ask...why not both? I'm with the embodied 4E crowd to the extent they are saying, "hey, this computational obsession has gone too far, there are other things happening in our headspace that matter too." But I think the most important, or at least the most interesting, aspects of human cognition arise predominately from our socio-cultural practices, rather than biological determinism.
I probably need to write a full essay about all this!