Beyond the brain?

Beginning with the mid 1990s, the dynamical perspective reached some degree of prominence in Cognitive Science. The rapid growth of the relevant literature of which a detailed account extends the scope of this essay, reflects the central notion that a cognitive agent must be viewed as coupled with the world in reciprocal interaction. What matters for this style of reasoning is that an embodied, situated, enactive agent together with its environment constitute a cognitive system: the blurring of boundaries between perception and action, and between mind and the world are among the key issues. Once embarked on this course, the next question arises: ”where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?”.
With this question, the authors draw attention to the numerous external resources used in support of Cognition. Bio-Musicologists have gained access to at least one form of interaction with external resources by studying the coupling between the phase space structure of music and electrical brain events. More recently, Patel & Balaban found temporal patterns of electromagnetic activity in the left posterior hemisphere of humans, which track the pitch contour of tone sequences with melody-like statistical properties. The role of this phenomenon for shared interpersonal experiences also warrants attention.

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(c) Gerhard Werner "Perspectives on the Neuroscience of Cognition and Consciousness."

02/17

Random Act of Kindness Day

А есть ли день когда все будут ждать пакостей?

the revelation

Все эти цветные сферы, потоки света и звука - предчуствия погремушек нового рождения.
Ламы обманывают нас: никто не будет кормить их рисом, зная что все настолько просто.