Qualia have played a key role in the development of a science of consciousness. They brought into focus the question of whether explaining the availability of information for reasoning, verbal report, and the control of action would suffice to explain conscious experience. A science confined to access consciousness would have to justify that restriction and explain what became of the...
How can we explain the intelligence of behaviors? Radical enactivists maintain that intelligent behaviors can be explained without involving the attribution of representational contents. In this paper, I challenge this view by providing arguments showing that the intelligence of a behavior is reliant on ways of presenting the relative purpose and the environment in which that behavior is...
Over the last few decades the body has been ignored in theories of mind. Recently, however, several conceptions concerning the way the body shapes the mind have been developed (LAKOFF 1987; VARELA, THOMSON, & ROSCH 1991; HURLEY 1998; BARSALOU 1999; NOA 2004; THOMSON 2007). Common among these theories is the idea that the body plays a critical role in shaping our experiential and cognitive life....