Embodied Minds, Second Order Cybernetic Bodies

Author: Combs A.

Source: Cybernetics & Human Knowing, Volume 9, Number 1, 2002 , pp. 89-96(8)

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Abstract:

We believe that the cognitive sciences have reached a situation in which they have been frozen into one narrow form by the machine metaphor. There is a need to thaw that from and move from a reductionist, atemporal, disembodied, static, rationalist, emotion- and culture-free view, to fundamentally richer understandings that include the primacy of action, intention, emotion, culture, real-time constraints, real-world opportunities, and the peculiarities of living bodies. These essays constitute an array of moves in that direction.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of North Carolina-Asheville; CPO #1960; Asheville, NC; USA. Email: ombs@unca.edu

Publication date: 2002-01-01