137. Embodied Cognition | THUNK
Is a brain all you need to have a functional mind? Is the body just peripheral to cognition? Many researchers think so, but advocates of embodied cognition have different ideas.
(Quick note: “Altered Carbon” is racy & gory, but also very good. It doesn’t get particularly hung up on the “Is a copy of my mind REALLY MEEEE?!” question, touches on a lot of interesting problems with technological immortality, & actually has a lot of interesting test cases & scenarios for the concept of embodied cognition.)
Links for the Curious
The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7756...
“A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain” by Samuel McNerny -
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
“Embodied Cognition,” the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/em...
“Embodied cognition is not what you think it is” by Andrew D. Wilson* and Sabrina Golonka - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...
The Poverty of Embodied Cognition (Goldinger et al, 2016) - http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com...
“You Think with the World, Not Just Your Brain” by Sam Kriss, a summary of a related phenomenon called “extended cognition” - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...
A Cognitive Study of Happiness Metaphors in Persian and English (Safarnejad et al, 2014) - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Why You May Want to Stand Like a Superhero”, by Robin S. Rosenberg - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...