Although the scientific study of the mind has developed rapidly, it has devoted little attention to human cognition understood as everyday lived experience. "The Embodied Mind" discusses the spontaneous and reflective dimensions of human experience. The authors argue that it is only by having a sense of common ground, between mind in science and mind in experience that our understanding of cognition can be more complete. To create this common ground they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate this dialogue in relation to other traditions, such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The dialogue proceeds in five parts. The first introduces the two partners and explains how the dialogue will develop. The second presents the computational model of mind that gave rise to cognitive science in its classical form. The authors show how this model implies that the self is fundamentally fragmented and introduce the complementary Buddhist concept of a nonunified, decentralized self. The third shows how cognitive science and Buddhist psychology provide the resources for understanding how the phenomena usually attributed to a self could arise without an actual self. The fourth presents the authors' own view of cognition as embodied action and discusses the relevance of this view for cognitive science and evolutionary theory. The fifth considers the philosophical and experiential implications of the view that cognition has no foundation or ground beyond its history of embodiment and explores these implications in relation to contemporary Western critiques of objectivism and the nonfoundationalist tradition of Buddhist philosophy.

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Etc.

Francisco J. Varela

Evan Thompson

Eleanor Rosch

Psychology & Counseling

MIT Press]

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

Evan T. Thompson

Mental Health

Mit Pr

Book by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Humberto R. Maturana

Science & Math

Shambhala

"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology, linguistics, and new social and cultural phenomena, this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS,INC.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

L'Arbre de la connaissance

çrvore do Conhecimento, A: As Bases Biol—gicas da Compreens‹o Humana

Editora Palas Athena

Un clasico del pensamiento contemporaneo. Esta obra centra su atencion en el conocimiento del ""como conocemos"", o bien, de la manera en que cada individuo logra su propio conocimiento de si y del mundo en que vivimos.

El arbol del conocimiento (Spanish Edition)

Lumen

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