Sunday, May 25, 2008

'3 Modes of cognition': linguistic, cognitive and embodied

Three hypothesized modes: 1. Language based - symbolic, public, intentional, syntactical. 2. 'Cognitive': pre-linguistic but nonetheless symbolic, abstact, discrete, intentional, hierarchical/ decomposable, and PUBLIC (with meaning and shared reference) - in part shared with ape higher cognition (goal directed, intelligent tool use, imitation learning, etc). 3. 'Embodied' - Connected, situated, dynamical (conditioning based, or affordance based), and non-intentional (in the philosophical sense).

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