tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73220054789479941912011-04-21T12:34:32.590-07:00Ideas relating to embodied cognition, consciousness and the philosophy of psychology.Mark Ashton Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09453854665336178370noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7322005478947994191.post-39559193398605080232007-01-31T13:36:00.000-08:002007-01-31T13:39:45.458-08:00I found this in my notes. Something that challenges the 'critical realism' thinking I've been doing recently.<br /><br />"Some dynamicists are anti-Piagetian, rejecting representation and realism, in favour of ‘world making’. Cognitive scientists in general allow that different creatures – including humans of different ages or historical periods – inhabit different environments to the extent that they (subjectively) represent different objects of the same (objective) world. But these dynamicists reject the subject-object distinction and the realism associated with it (Haugeland in press). Stressing the close dynamic coupling between organism and environment they argue that ‘environments’ are wholly constituted by world-embedded activities of the creatures concerned: there is no such thing as an organism-independent, objectively real world. Based on ideas by Heidegger."<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7322005478947994191-3955919339860508023?l=ecclab.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Mark Ashton Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09453854665336178370noreply@blogger.com0