Philosophy of Situated Cognition

Currently reading @birchlse

More on collective behavior: Our new Annual Review of Biophysics piece - with the stellar Danielle Chase - explores how animals sense, share information, and make group decisions. In honeybees and beyond 🐝 annualreviews.org/content/journa…

I want to know how they implement smooth movements like this! youtube.com/shorts/pqIbLwI…

Ok, more fun than anything else. But enough for me!

Just released, this wonderful conversation with @waymaking23. Andrea artfully steers the conversation in many surprising directions starting from our work on play and predictive processing. Check it out. youtube.com/watch?v=02vDGL…

Since its beginnings, the enactive approach has shown how autonomy is scaffolded across biological, sensorimotor, and social dimensions. This new video interview with Ezequiel Di Paolo tells the story in an accessible way: youtube.com/watch?v=y4DzMq…

Is cognition all in the head (neurons)? Here we suggest that cognition is a complex multiscale information processing distributed across every single cell in the body 😎 We focus on the immune / neuro tandem ⁦@drmichaellevin⁩ E. Shmeleva frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Uh, interesting post about distinguishing attractors from mechanisms.

Just started on this, but sparked a thought: Enactivism, I've noticed what seems a gap-a developed theory of nature. Not much explicit work on it, and it's not a topic of conversation. Hope this reading will offer some valuable insights how to address it. manifold.umn.edu/projects/biolo…

(Neo-)Pragmatists & Members of the Pragmatic Turn: How do you differentiate practices? Could you describe, for instance: "In this specific lab, they use these 5 practices for scientific discovery, and they relate in X, Y, Z ways"? If not, what's your analytical approach?

Need to read "Complexity, Diversity, and Stability" by James Justus and "Models" by Jan Odenbaugh. But with that publication pandemic out there, how to keep track of everything relevant and interesting?! It's a weird challenge. Might develop sth like "smart ignorance" to cope.

... or how neo-pragmatist have put it: when double-perspectival tracking of deontic status doesn't lead to the same ascription of doxastic commitments and entitlement, you need to be explicit about why and where you might track differently. Thanks Robert Brandom!

I talked to somebody today who is criticizing cognitive computationalism in a 4E-way (homunculus, problems with infinite regresses and semantics). However, she said she isn't a situated cognition researcher. But if it walks and quacks like a duck... philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/

An all-terrain robot has been introduced capable of tackling off-road challenges in rough environments. Its impressive: …-website.oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/file/lynx/02cd…

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 Title of section 1 summarizes it: "The problem: Reductionism and control vs natural behavior: from Descartes and Bacon to Natural Neuroscience" The brain as a complex network. Looks like a fantastic book.

Glad to see our previous visitor Rieko Osu is coming back to OIST for this workshop!

Like how he applies the structural equation model (SEM) in combination with premises of embodiment. As I see it, its not often used in 4E and I am wondering how this method could be applied more frequently in our field. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

"What is 4E cognitive science?" from a methodological point of view? Cameron asks the right questions! With us in the references 🥳 Nice: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision Opinion by H. Steven Scholte & Edward de Haan Open Access: tinyurl.com/4b5myz68

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 How can network science tackle complex biological systems? Conceptual piece, happy to see others fill in details or collaborate osf.io/preprints/osf/…