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

Exactly! So many new inventions of the wheel in the space where the requirements for academic achievement produce generational amnesias.
   
  Why is it that the fascist Heidegger has generated so much inked smirched papeer while the french resistance leader Merleau-Ponty has been largely forgotten. Could it be that the social context favors the kinds of ideas that fit well and excludes those that don't?? Does the way a person walks having anything to do with how s/he talks?
   
  Paul Dillon

Ed Wall <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:
  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 wrote:
>>
>> Michael Roth's research on gestures would seem to indicate yes.
>> bb
>>
>> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>> From: "Cunningham, Donald James"
>> > 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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