Cognition Beyond the Brain: Computation, Interactivity and Human Artifice by Stephen J. Cowley
English | PDF | 2013 | 291 Pages | ISBN : 1447151240 | 5 MB
Cognition Beyond the Brain challenges neurocentrism by advocating a systemic view of cognition based on investigating how action shapes the experience of thinking. The systemic view steers between extended functionalism and enactivism by stressing how living beings connect bodies, technologies, language and culture. Since human thinking depends on a cultural ecology, people connect biologically-based powers with extended systems and, by so doing, they constitute cognitive systems that reach across the skin. Biological interpretation exploits extended functional systems.