RE: [xmca] Looking forward by looking back, sort of.

I was actually thinking about a more funda_mental_ level, the embodied
cognition position. I recently reviewed a book for the prestigious MCA
called _Embodiment and Cognitive Science_ by Raymond Gibbs. Here is
Gibbs own summary of the book:

People's subjective, felt experiences of their bodies in action provide
part of the fundamental grounding for language and thought. Cognition is
what occurs when the body engages the physical, cultural world and must
be studied in terms of the dynamical interactions between people and the
environment. Human language and thought emerge from recurring patterns
of embodied activity that constrain ongoing intelligent behavior. We
must not assume cognition to be purely internal, symbolic, computational
and disembodied, but seek out the gross and detailed ways that language
and thought are inextricably shaped by embodied action. (pg 9).

So maybe the question is not "What do you think?" but "Where does that
thought come from?"

Don Cunningham
Indiana University

Ancora Imparo!

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Subject: Re: [xmca] Looking forward by looking back, sort of.

Ditto work of McNeil and Goldin-Meadow.
mike

On 6/28/07, xmcabb@comcast.net <xmcabb@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Michael Roth's research on gestures would seem to indicate yes.
> bb
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
> > Great quote Bill!
> >
> > I have a question, though. Is the body itself a tool for thought?
> >
> > Don Cunningham
> > Indiana University
> >
> > Ancora Imparo!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
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> > On Behalf Of xmcabb@comcast.net
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> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: [xmca] Looking forward by looking back, sort of.
> >
> > http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/c7010/Licklider.html
> >
> > Summary
> >
> > Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative
> > interaction between men and electronic computers. It will involve
very
> > close coupling between the human and the electronic members of the
> > partnership. The main aims are 1) to let computers facilitate
> > formulative thinking as they now facilitate the solution of
formulated
> > problems, and 2) to enable men and computers to cooperate in making
> > decisions and controlling complex situations without inflexible
> > dependence on predetermined programs. In the anticipated symbiotic
> > partnership, men will set the goals, formulate the hypotheses,
determine
> > the criteria, and perform the evaluations. Computing machines will
do
> > the routinizable work that must be done to prepare the way for
insights
> > and decisions in technical and scientific thinking. Preliminary
analyses
> > indicate that the symbiotic partnership will perform intellectual
> > operations much more effectively than man alone can perform them.
> > Prerequisites for the achieveme
> > nt of
> > the effective, cooperative association include developments in
computer
> > time sharing, in memory components, in memory organization, in
> > programming languages, and in input and output equipment.
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