Cybernetics
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Principia Cybernetica (web) |
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Encyclopedia Autopoietica |
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| enactive An adjectival term introduced by Varela, Thompson and Rosch (1991) to denote what they perceive as a third (neither radically objectivist nor radically subjectivist) orientation to cognition and its study. This term was selected "...to emphasize the growing conviction that cognition is not the representation of a pregiven world by a pregiven mind but is rather the enactment of a world and a mind on the basis of a history of the variety of actions that a being in the world performs." (p. 9) enactive approach A term used colloquially in The Embodied Mind (Varela, Thompson & Rosch, 1991) to denote their proposed stance on cognition -- one based on a 'middle way' between the conventionally-presumed extremes of objectivism and subjectivism. By relying on a fundamental critique of representationalism combined with evidence from empirical science.
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International Encyclopedia of Systems & Cybernetics |
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| A theory of cognition which considers it as inscribed in the body. This theory, introduced by F. VARELA et al (1993), is influenced by Buddhist tradiotional psychology, and constitutes also a development of MATURANA and VARELA’s concept of autopoieses. It proposes an integrated approach to the so-called "mind-body" problem, as the body is the place wherein perceptive and cognitive mechanisms are elaborated as subjective cognition.
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