The Embodied Mind : Cognitive Science and Human Experience /

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The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Varela, Francisco J., 1946-2001
Other Authors: Rosch, Eleanor, Thompson, Evan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1993.
Edition:1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Processos Cognitivos.
Experiential learning.
Cognitive science.
Cognition.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
cognition.
Apprentissage experientiel.
Sciences cognitives.
Cognition
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fundamental circularity: in the mind of the reflective scientist
  • What do we mean "Human experience"?
  • Symbols: the cognitivist hypothesis
  • Of the storm
  • Emergent properties and connectionism
  • Selfless minds
  • Cartesian anxiety
  • Enaction: embodied cognition
  • Evolutionary path making and natural drift
  • Middle way
  • Laying down a path in walking
  • Appendix A: Meditation terminology
  • Appendix B: Categories of experiential events used in mindfulness/awareness
  • Appendix C: Works on Buddhism and mindfulness/awareness.

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