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Traditional cognitive science ('cognitivism') is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained by classical AI and computational theory. The authors in this volume develop a critique of cognitivism and introduce an alternative approach -- which owes more to evolutionary biology, embodied robotics, phenomenology and dynamical systems.

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Pioneering

This is a landmark book and is worth reading because it is important. It argues against the popularly accepted view that the human mind is like a computer and puts forward the embodied, emergent and socially influenced perspectives. Once everyone figures out what these words mean there will be a revolution in our ability to understand our minds.

Most of the papers in the book are well written. There are a couple near the end that are poorly written.

Freeman is a pioneer and Nunez is a revolutionary (see his work with Lakoff - "Where Mathematics Comes From.")
February 24, 2003

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