From: Mark Crosby (crosby_m@rocketmail.com)
Date: Tue May 11 1999 - 09:23:20 MDT
---Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:
> important line of thinking:
> http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lakoff/lakoff_p1.html
> on the embodied mind - a simplified rehash, but I
do like this guy's work.
Besides the main Lakoff interview that Damien
mentions, there's also Lakoff's response to comments
(at http://www.edge.org/discourse/lakoff.html) which
has a useful 12-point list of "what we mean by a
computational model that has properties of neural
systems" - which emphasizes contingencies - and is
followed by Lakoff's statement - which should concern
transhumanists interested in uploading or
automorphing - that "'Functionalist' systems are
general symbol manipulation systems and they do not
have these properties". - Mark
P.S. The latest and greatest (arguably of course)
work in the embodied mind or enactivist 'school of
thought' is Susan L Hurley's 9810 _Consciousness in
Action_ (see
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/Fall98/catalog/conscious_action.html):
"A standard view conceives perception as input from
world to mind and action as output from mind to
world, with the serious business of thought in
between. Hurley criticizes this picture..."
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