The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

By Marina Basu. 2004

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A review of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, 1991. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 308pp. ISBN 0262720213. $30.00 USD.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Sociology and Political Science

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Loving and knowing: reflections for an engaged epistemology (2019, background): “Here others, and the interactive experience and skills we honed 13 Cf. Jonas 1966, 1984, 2016; Merleau-Ponty 1945, 1968; Maturana and Varela 1980; Dillon 1997; Varela et al. 1991; Thompson 2007; Di Paolo 2005, 2009, 2018.”
The Brain — A Mediating Organ (2011, background): “The enactive approach to cognition put first forward by Varela et al. (1991) takes this generally: A cognitive being’s world is not a pregiven external realm, represented internally by the brain, but a relational domain created by that being’s agency and coupling with the environment.”
The Relationship Among the Components of Self-compassion: A Pilot Study Using a Compassionate Writing Intervention to Enhance Self-kindness, Common Humanity, and Mindfulness (2020, background): “However, since Buddhist thought also rejects the idea of the self, it is unsurprising that Western cultures mostly associate compassion with compassion for others (Varela et al. 1991).”
The Meaning of Mindfulness: A Second-Order Cybernetics of Stress, Metacognition, and Coping (2007, background): “Hence, in Buddhism, mindfulness is in and of itself considered to be liberating (Varela et al., 1991).”
Creating mathematical infinities: Metaphor, blending, and the beauty of transfinite cardinals (2005, background): “It is in fact constrained by biological phenomena such as morphology, neuroanatomy, and the complexity of the human nervous system (Varela et al., 1991; Thelen and Smith, 1994; Núñez and Freeman, 1999).”
Naturalizing joint action: A process-based approach (2012, background): “As just noted, this may be the case with posture (Shockley et al., 2003) and other rhythmic behaviors (e.g., Richardson, Marsh, Isenhower, Goodman, & Schmidt, 2007; Schmidt, Carello, & Turvey, 1990), but other systems also exhibit this alignment.”
Ecological-Enactive Cognition as engaging with a field of relevant affordances (2018, background): “…introduction, it is often assumed that the increasingly influential paradigm of embodied/enactive cognitive science (Chemero 2009; Thompson 2007; Varela, Thompson, and Rosch 1991) has sensible things to say about so-called ‘lower’ cognition, such as grasping a glass or riding a bike, but not…”
Reflective design (2005, background): “…theory a Western tradition of critical reflection embodied various intellectual strands including Marxism, feminism racial and ethnic studies, media studies and psychoanalysis (The potential of Eastern reflective traditions such Buddhism for HCI is beyond the scope of this work; e.g. [ 44].)”
Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content (2012, methodology): “…BLOCKIN from BLOCKIN BLOCKIN the BLOCKIN BLOCKIN first BLOCKIN BLOCKIN book BLOCKIN BLOCKIN on BLOCKIN BLOCKIN the BLOCKIN BLOCKIN enactive BLOCKIN BLOCKIN approach BLOCKIN BLOCKIN to cognitive science (Varela et al., 1991) and was only incorporated later on (Thompson, BLOCKIN BLOCKIN 2007).”
Making Sense of Sense-Making: Reflections on Enactive and Extended Mind Theories (2009, background): “There is a clear parallel here between the enactive approach and the phenomenological notion of intentionality (Varela et al. 1991, pp. 205–206; Thompson 2007, pp. 26–27).”
The interactive brain hypothesis (2012, background): “With roots in work by Francisco Varela and colleagues (Varela et al., 1991), this approach has seen a major theoretical”