Radical embodiment: neural dynamics and consciousness.

By Evan Thompson, F. Varela. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Life and mind: From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology. A tribute to Francisco Varela (2004, background): “I offer it as a “radical embodiment” reformulation of the hard problem (Thompson and Varela, 2001; Thompson, forthcoming) In putting the problem this way, I am relying on the phenomenological distinction between the body as a material thing (Körper), and the body as a living and feeling being…”
Bridging emotion theory and neurobiology through dynamic systems modeling (2005, background): “Thompson and Varela (2001) argue that such synchronization reflects the integration of many dimensions in a unified “cognitive act,” rather than the clustering of component perceptual processes.”
The Phenomenological Mind (2007, positive): “The self-organization involved is not an abstract computation, but an embodied behaviour subject to initial conditions (specified, for example, as what the experiencing subject intends to do or has just done), and non-specific parameters (for example, changes in perceptual conditions or attentional ”
Theta rhythm of navigation: Link between path integration and landmark navigation, episodic and semantic memory (2005, background): “A spatial metric in sensory systems cannot arise without movement of the body (Thompson and Varela, 2001; Khazipov et al., 2004), which is an essential part of dead reckoning navigation.”
On the relationship between emotion and cognition (2008, background): “In this context, large-scale integration mechanisms, possibly by phase synchronization across multiple frequency band”
Busting Out: Predictive Brains, Embodied Minds, and the Puzzle of the Evidentiary Veil (2017, background): “What remains is a vision of dense, but fluid, intermingling in which brain, body, and environment appear as “mutually embedded systems” (Thompson & Varela, 2001 p.423 ) harmonized in the service of situated success.”
Philosophical Antecedents of Situated Cognition (2008, background): “Thompson and Varela (2001) also emphasize the importance of “cycles of intersubjective interaction, involving the recognition of the intentional meaning of actions and linguistic communication (in humans)” (p. 424).”
Consciousness as a phenomenon in the operational architectonics of brain organization: Criticality and self-organization considerations (2013, background): “This approach is currently supported by most researchers working in the field [12-24] and is distinct from alternative ideas according to which consciousness is either a supernatural phenomenon that is entirely beyond the reach of science [25-28], or is a phenomenon found at the quantum level [29-32”
The Metastable Brain (2014, neutral): “…2001; Kozma et al., 2005; Honey et al., 2007; Plenz and Chialvo, 2009; Werner, 2010; Lowen et al., 1997) that both arise from and modulate interactions with the body and the environment (Edelman, 1999; Thompson and Varela, 2001; Sporns, 2003; Kiebel et al., 2008; see also Longtin et al., 2003).”