

BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson
23 snips Jul 22, 2022
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Early Connection with Francisco Varela
- Evan Thompson met Francisco Varela as a teen through his father's organization, fostering an early intellectual friendship.
- This connection led to collaborative work culminating in the foundational book "The Embodied Mind."
Enactive Cognition Shifts Paradigm
- The enactive approach highlights cognition as an active process shaped by bodily sensory-motor skills and habits.
- It moves beyond passive representation, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and body in cognition.
Umwelt Defines Individual Experience
- Every organism experiences the world uniquely based on its bodily structure and capacities.
- This concept, called umwelt, stresses that cognition is shaped by body-world interactions, not abstract representations.