Lin Nie

A demonstration of the transition from ready-to-hand to unready-to-hand.

PLoS One March 9, 2010 Dobromir G Dotov, Lin Nie, Anthony Chemero

The ideas of continental philosopher Martin Heidegger have been influential in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, despite the fact that there has been no effort to analyze these ideas empirically. The experiments reported here are designed to lend empirical support to Heidegger's phenomenology and more specifically his description of the transition between ready-to-hand and...