The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

11. Ecological Realism: The embodied mind

  1. The Information Flow
  2. Passive Cognition
  3. Directed Cognition
  4. Organisms and Environment
  5. Situation Theory
  6. Goal-driven Evolution
  7. Cognition as Adaptation
  8. Situated Cognition
  9. Vehicles
  10. Robots do not evolve
  11. The Performatory Mind
  12. Autopoiesis
  13. Gaia and the Noosphere
  14. Enaction
  15. The Mind Is The Body
  16. The Extended Phenotype
  17. Sensory Exotica
  18. The Universe is a Message To Life

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Barrett, Louise: BEYOND THE BRAIN - HOW BODY AND ENVIRONMENT SHAPE ANIMAL AND HUMAN MINDS (Princeton University Press, 2011)

Barwise, John & Perry, John: SITUATIONS AND ATTITUDES (MIT Press, 1983)

Bogdan, Radu: GROUNDS FOR COGNITION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1994)

Breitenberg, Valentino: VEHICLES (MIT Press, 1984)

Brooks, Rodney & Steels, Luc: THE ARTIFICIAL LIFE ROUTE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995)

Carlson Richard: EXPERIENCED COGNITION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997)

Clancey, William: SITUATED COGNITION (Cambridge Univ Press, 1997)

Clark, Andy: BEING THERE (MIT Press, 1997)

Dawkins, Richard: THE EXTENDED PHENOTYPE (OUP, 1982)

Dennett, Daniel: THE INTENTIONAL STANCE (MIT Press, 1987)

Dretske, Fred: KNOWLEDGE AND THE FLOW OF INFORMATION (MIT Press, 1981)

Dretske, Fred: EXPLAINING BEHAVIOR (MIT Press, 1988)

Gallistel, C.R.: THE ORGANIZATION OF ACTION (Erlbaum, 1980)

Gibson, James Jerome: THE SENSES CONSIDERED AS PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS (Houghton Mifflin, 1966)

Gibson, James Jerome: THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH TO VISUAL PERCEPTION (Houghton Mifflin, 1979)

Helmholtz, Hermann: TREATISE ON PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS (1866)

Hughes, Howard: SENSORY EXOTICA (MIT Press, 1999)

Johnson, Mark: THE BODY IN THE MIND (Univ of Chicago Press, 1987)

Kitchener, Robert: PIAGET'S THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE (Yale University Press, 1986)

Lewontin, Richard: HUMAN DIVERSITY (W.H.Freeman, 1981)

Lovelock, James: GAIA (Oxford University Press, 1979)

Maturana, Humberto: AUTOPOIESIS AND COGNITION (Reidel, 1980)

Maturana, Humberto & Varela Francisco: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE (Shambhala, 1992)

Millikan, Ruth: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL CATEGORIES (MIT Press, 1987)

Millikan, Ruth: WHAT IS BEHAVIOR? (MIT Press, 1991)

Neisser, Ulric: COGNITION AND REALITY (Freeman, 1975)

Neisser, Ulric: THE REMEMBERING  SELF (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Neisser, Ulric: THE PERCEIVED SELF (Cambridge Univ Press, 1994)

Plotkin, Henry: DARWIN MACHINES AND THE NATURE OF KNOWLEDGE (Harvard University Press, 1994)

Varela, Francisco, Thompson Evan & Rosch Eleanor: THE EMBODIED MIND (MIT Press, 1991)

Varela, Francisco: PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGICAL AUTONOMY (North Holland, 1979)

Vernadsky, Vladimir: THE BIOSPHERE (?, 1926)(Synergetics, 1986)

VonUexküll, Jakob: UMWELT UND INNENWELT DER TIERE (1921)

Von Uexküll, Jakob: WORLDS OF ANIMALS AND WORLD OF MEN (1934)

Weiss, Paul: ANIMAL BEHAVIOR AS SYSTEM REACTION (1925)

Winograd, Terry & Flores, Fernando: UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS AND COGNITION (Ablex, 1986)