Traces of thinking: a stigmergic approach to 4E cognition
Synthese June 23, 2025 Ric Sims 1 citation
Abstract This paper outlines an approach to analysing minimal cognition that brings out its social and historical dimensions. It proposes a model, the coordinated systems approach (CSA), which understands cognition as a coordinated coalition of loosely autonomous processes responsible for goal-directedness in a system. On this view, even individual cognition has something of a social flavour to...