Being there : putting brain, body, and world together again / Andy Clark.

By:

Clark, Andy, 1957- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0262032406
9780262032407

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

153 21

LOC classification:

BD418.3 .C53 1997

Contents:

Autonomous agents: walking on the moon -- The situated infant -- Mind and world: the plastic frontier -- Collective wisdom, slime-mold-style -- Evolving robots -- Emergence and explanation -- The neuroscientific image -- Being, computing, representing -- Minds and markets -- Language: the ultimate artifact -- Minds, brains, and tuna (a summary in brine) -- --

Preface: Deep Thought Meets Fluent Action -- Acknowledgments -- Groundings -- Introduction: A Car with a Cockroach Brain -- 1. Autonomous Agents: Walking on the Moon -- 2. The Situated Infant -- 3. Mind and World: The Plastic Frontier -- 4. Collective Wisdom, Slime-Mold-Style -- Intermission: A Capsule History -- 5. Evolving Robots -- 6. Emergence and Explanation -- 7. The Neuroscientific Image -- 8. Being, Computing, Representing -- 9. Minds and Markets -- 10. Language: The Ultimate Artifact -- 11. Minds, Brains, and Tuna (A Summary in Brine) -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

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"A Bradford book.".

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.

The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

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