PPT-Cognition at the Crossroads: from Embodied Minds to Thinkin

Michael Wheeler School of Arts and Humanities Philosophy University of Stirling Body Matters One way of understanding the importance of embodiment depicts the body as intrinsically special and the details of a creatures embodiment as a major and abiding constraint on the nature of its mind a kind of newwave bodycentrism The other depicts the body as just one element in a kind of equalpartners dance between brain body and world with the nature of the mind fixed by the overall balance thus achieved a kind of extended functionalism now with an even broader canvas for multiple realizability than ever before . Skepticism. Last time we talked about what might be called “global” skepticism– skepticism that anything at all can be known. . We considered several responses to arguments for skepticism: accepting skepticism, accepting idealism, or simply denying that skeptical arguments have any force (Moore’s response).. Kelly K. McCoy, Psy.D.. Neuropsychologist. War Related Illness and Injury Study Center. Washington, DC VA Medical Center. “Historically, it is often the physical manifestations of a brain disorder that are the first to be described in the scientific literature and to be clinically treated. Some decades later, the cognitive impairments are recognized. Yet, it is the emotional and behavioral changes that are the most significant barriers to effective functioning in family, in work, in school and in other settings.” (Judd, 1999). Gert. Kootstra. Embodied Cognition Course. Course coordinator. Gert. Kootstra, CVAP. kootstra@kth.se. Other organizers. Orjan. . Ekeberg. , CB. Giampiero. . Salvi. , TMH. Time. Wednesdays 10:00-12:00. Evidence . for Gene-Environment . Interplay. Terrie . Vasilopoulos. University . of . Chicago. Demography Workshop. 01/10/13. Cognitive. . performance across the lifespan. Hedden & Gabrieli (2004) . James C. Blackmon. Thesis and Content. Thesis: Every functioning . neurotypical. brain hosts many conscious minds at once. . Initial Considerations. Arguments from . Hemispherectomy. ,. Stroke, and Wada Test. Joshua 24:15. And if it seems evil to you to serve the . Lord. , choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that . were. Gert. Kootstra. Embodied Cognition Course. Course coordinator. Gert. Kootstra, CVAP. kootstra@kth.se. Other organizers. Orjan. . Ekeberg. , CB. Giampiero. . Salvi. , TMH. Time. Wednesdays 10:00-12:00. Two possible reasons why chimp and human minds appear to be so similar. They are! Argument from . biological parsimony. BP: . Humans and chimps are closely related, so similarity in brain and mental functions is not unexpected. Some thoughts to ponder.. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle. "The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.". How did we get here?. Substance Dualism. According to the . substance dualist. , there are two kinds of substances: physical substances and mental substances.. Physical Properties. Physical substances have physical properties:. SECM. /15/162. D.M.K.W. . Dissanayake. C. . Jayasinghe. . University of . Moratuwa. Content. Background. Life Cycle Analysis. Embodied Energy of Building . Components. Methodology. Energy consumption at production of building materials (E. : . Thinking. Unit III Developmental Psychology. Introducing the “DESIGNATED UNIT…”. Marshmallow Challenge. What to . do:. Build the tallest freestanding structure:. the winning team is the one that has the tallest structure measured from the . Neil . DeGrass. Tyson on Human Intelligence. The Astonishing Hypothesis. “You, . your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated . Embodied Individualism. Riccardo Viale. Department. of . Economics. Università di Milano Bicocca. Cognitive . Insights. Team, Herbert Simon Society. METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCES.