© Elena Antonova, Ph.D. (Association Member, Mind & Life Europe) The Embodied Mind, a book co-authored by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleonor Rosch, directly engaged with the field of Artifical Intelligence (AI) and robotics by critiquing a cognitive representationalist model of the mind and presenting an embodied and enactive approach as an alternative. It led to the emergence of the new kind of AI robotics, with the embodied enactive robots learning from the experiences of their interaction with the environment and/or humans, rather than being fully programmed at ‘birth’ by their creator. So I asked myself: how can contemplative ...
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‘Thinking at the edge opens up new perspectives into the amazing fabric of meaning‘
At the European Summer Research Institute 2017, held in Germany in August, Donata Schoeller led the 'Thinking at the Edge' sessions. By following simple steps participants explored the tacit dimensions of the very issue they research. ‘For me as a philosopher, 'Thinking at the Edge' opened up new perspectives into the amazing fabric of meaning, which inspires my thinking continuously.’ Current science, social policy and human relations tend to exclude the intricacy of the individual's experience. 'Thinking at the Edge' (TAE) is a way to think and speak about our world and ourselves by generating terms from a "felt sense".[1] ...
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