Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone

BS 198 Embodied Cognition with Evan Thompson

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Jul 22, 2022
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ANECDOTE

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."
INSIGHT

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.
INSIGHT

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.
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