When is a cognitive system embodied?

Riegler, Alexander

doi:10.1016/s1389-0417(02)00046-3

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“…The main result, however, is that the nervous system has learned to cope with disturbances from the environment. An observer might interpret this as gain of "competence" in the environment (Riegler, 2002) or as the "recognition" of objects in its world (Scheier and Lambrinos, 1996).…”

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Inside embodiment – what means embodiment to radical constructivists?

Porr

Wörgötter²

2005

Kybernetes

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The nervous system is operationally closed. It operates only in contact to itself. This astonishing claim has been made by Heinz von Foerster, one of the founders of radical constructivism. This work explores the consequences of his claim in the context of linear signal theory, embodiment and the creation of artifacts. In linear signal theory all transfer functions can be directly associated with the neural activity where also the environment is described by neural activity. This means that the environment is no objective entity but is described in terms of internal activity. We construct the worlds in our heads. The phenomenon of embodiment is interpreted here from the perspective of the nervous system, thus from the inner perspective. To identify inside and outside an organism must learn to identify the disturbances which are only in the environment. This can be done by anticipatory learning. Thus, embodiment is a process which emerges from the anticipation of disturbances. If one wants to design artifacts in the context of constructivism one has to obey that only quantity (activity) plays a role but no interpretation of activity. In addition one has to design an agent which performs input control and not output control.

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Inside embodiment – what means embodiment to radical constructivists?

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Wörgötter²

2005

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“…Variations, he argues, are often "caused by perturbations to the system." 34 It is only when these "perturbations" exist between a self-system and its environment that a system can be said to be embodied in its environment. Drawing on Maturana and Varela, in "On the Essence of Embodiment," Quick, Dautenhahn, Nehaniv and Roberts define a minimal notion of embodiment as follows:…”

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Memento Mori, Memento Vivere: Early Nietzsche on History, Embodiment, and Value

Dries

2017

The Journal of Nietzsche Studies

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The centrality of the embodiment of mind, self, and values for the later Nietzsche is widely acknowledged. Here, I reconstrue Nietzsche's HL to show that he uses his drive model of the mind already in this early text. The "historical sickness" central to HL is diagnosed in the form of failures of embodiment and drive control. First, I argue that a precursor to Nietzsche's figure of "the last human" is already the target in HL. Second, I offer working definitions for terms such as 'drives', 'affects,' and 'values,' which are crucial to Nietzsche's heuristic diagnostic framework. I then focus on the neglected passage that contrasts the medieval memento mori with a modern memento vivere, showing that the former functions as an embodied mechanism of willing and self-control, which Nietzsche claims the moderns have been unsuccessful in replacing. Finally, I draw on recent research in embodied cognition and identify two causes-"overload" and "semantic embodiment"-of the modern "historical sickness" that undermines flourishing.

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“…e.g. [1,10,18,24,27,28,[43][44][45][46][47][48]). Hence the following subsections present and discuss a number of these different views of embodied cognition.…”

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Embodied Cognitive Science

Lindblom

2015

Cognitive Systems Monographs

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When is a cognitive system embodied?

Cited by 64 publications

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Inside embodiment – what means embodiment to radical constructivists?

Inside embodiment – what means embodiment to radical constructivists?

Memento Mori, Memento Vivere: Early Nietzsche on History, Embodiment, and Value

Embodied Cognitive Science

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