This chapter explains embodied action. The term embodied highlights two points: first, that cognition depends upon the kinds of experience that come from having a body with various sensorimotor capacities, and second, that these individual sensorimotor capacities are themselves embedded in a more encompassing biological, psychological, and cultural context. The term action emphasizes that...
their best, these traditions offer a portal into a radically new (lived) understanding of what it is to know, to be, to act, and to be an embodied self in time. Western approaches have so far tended only to nibble around the edges of these traditions. For example, meditation may be taken simply as a technology for therapy in which one's old notion of self can better get what it wants. Or...
Part 1 The departing ground: a fundamental circularity - in the mind of the reflective scientist - an already-given condition, what is cognitive science?, cognitive science within the circle, the theme of this book what do we mean "Human Experience"? - science and the phenomenological tradition, the breakdown of phenomenology, a non-western philosophical tradition, examining experience with a...