{"id":156360,"date":"2023-01-26T21:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/cognition-after-the-representation-war-part-2-4e-cognition"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T03:22:20","slug":"cognition-after-the-representation-war-part-2-4e-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/cognition-after-the-representation-war-part-2-4e-cognition","title":{"rendered":"Cognition after the representation war (part 2) \u2014 4E Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Through the issue of mental representation addressed in the previous article<\/a>, it is possible to get a first idea about the theoretical discontinuity between traditional cognitive science and more recent approaches gathered under the umbrella of so-called 4E Cognition<\/em><\/strong>. In fact, in many cases those latter reflect \u2014 directly or in a collateral way \u2014 the attempt to overcome the problem of representation in human cognition, even thought, as we\u2019re going to say, this doesn\u2019t entail a unite consensus at all.<\/p>\n

4E Cognition<\/em> has not to be seen as a specific and well-defined theoretical system, rather, it is a term referring to all those works (hypothesis, theories, experiments, etc.) which deviate from the traditional representational-computational model of cognition (see part 1<\/a>), taking a dynamic and enactive approach, namely,<\/strong> conceiving cognition as embodied<\/em>, embedded<\/em>, enactive<\/em> and extended<\/em><\/strong> (that\u2019s why 4E). In a nutshell, mental states and cognitive processes would be: embodied<\/em> when they are partly constituted by bodily processes; embedded<\/em> when there is an essential causal dependence between such states and processes and the environment; enacted<\/em> when the actions of the subject can partly constitute these states and processes; and extended<\/em> when objects or processes in the environment can partly constitute those states and processes [4].<\/p>\n

Here you can find a quick conversational introduction to 4E cognition made by professor Shaun Gallagher:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Through the issue of mental representation addressed in the previous article, it is possible to get a first idea about the theoretical discontinuity between traditional cognitive science and more recent approaches gathered under the umbrella of so-called 4E Cognition. In fact, in many cases those latter reflect \u2014 directly or in a collateral way \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}