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

Where? Sounds a bit like Merleau-Ponty to me. For instance, Chapter 6
of the Phenomenology of Perception is 'The Body as Expression and
Speech.'

Ed Wall

>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!
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>On Behalf Of Mike Cole
>Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 2:59 PM
>To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>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
>[mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
>> > On Behalf Of xmcabb@comcast.net
>> > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:34 AM
>> > 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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