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Anthony Chemero on 4E cognitive science, ecological psychology, dynamical systems theory

Thing in itself

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How to Do Cognitive Science Without Invoking Representations?

Cognitive science starts with a background in philosophy, he says. "Once you bring representations into the game, that is once you think the job of my experience is to rebuild the world" The real motivation has been to kind of change the way the general philosophical picture of what the mind is,. He argues it's interdependent with and partly consisting of things outside of you, especially tools and other people.

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