Embodied Cognition

This essay offers a chronological survey of the range of songs and musical productions inspired by Darwin and his theory since they entered the public sphere some 150 years ago. It draws on an unusual set of historical materials, including illustrated sheet music, lyrics and librettos, wax cylinder recordings, vinyl records, and video recordings located in digital and sound archives and on the Internet. It also offers a characterization of the varied genres and a literary analysis of the forms as a way of understanding the diverse audiences engaging, and indeed "entertaining," Darwin and the implications of his theory. It argues that the engagement with Darwin and his celebrated theory is far more creative than has been appreciated and recommends that historians of science further explore Darwin and his theory as embodied in a fuller range of cultural expressions. This will lead to an understanding of Darwin's "iconic" status that draws on a fuller range of human sensory experience and that also enables us to appreciate his-and his theory's-enduring power to engage the human imagination. As he flies from tree to tree, Well there may be monkey in some of you guys But there ain't no monkey in me. -Lyrics to "There Ain't No Bugs (On Me)" One ridicules in order to forget. -Mikhail Mikhailovitch Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination INTRODUCTION: DARWIN'S "ICONIC" STATUS I N HER EXAMINATION OF DARWIN as a celebrity figure, Janet Browne has drawn heavily on images embodied not only in portraits and caricatures but also in material objects like Darwinian bric-a-brac and bibelots as well as sculptures and busts. Exploring

To be a genuinely useful methodology for cognitive psychology, situated action must be extended to explain higher-level human cognition. Yet there is a tension between the requirements for cognitive explanations and the kind of explanations situated action supplies. It is just not clear how to use embodied interaction with an external environment to explain processes that are so internal and that seem to crucially involve representatious and concepts. In short, there is nothing for concepts to interact with. Perhaps they interact with each other. This is the idea we explore here. We give a situated action style explanation for conceptual change in the context of analogical reminding. We have two central results: 1) analogical reminding changes concepts in long-term memory, and 2) concepts have implicit as well as explicit structure.

Embodied cognition is a research program comprising an array of methods from diverse theoretical fields (e.g., philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, etc.) held together by the key assumption that the body functions as a constituent of the mind rather than a passive perceiver and actor serving the mind. With a longstanding tradition in continental and pragmatic philosophy and a recent explosion in theoretical and empirical research in psychology and cognitive science, the embodied cognition research program is now ready to be formally translated into an applied approach for clinical, sport, education, social, media and health settings. This brief review sets the scene for this special edition by outlining philosophies and theory underpinning the embodied cognition research program and briefly reviewing accounts of embodied cognition that form themes running through the articles included in this special edition. Finally, we provide some examples of existing interventions, therapies and practices that utilise bodymind principles common to embodied cognition, though under other descriptive methodological titles. We suggest that embracing and integrating these interventions, therapies and practices under "applied embodied cognition" will encourage interdisciplinary discussion, thereby helping to move the field forward.

Pupils with disabilities have been found to experience a narrower physical education curriculum and participate less frequently than pupils without disabilities. A lack of knowledge, skills, relevant experiences and confidence amongst PE teachers has been said to contribute to these differential educational experiences. This article adds to the paucity of research that analyses the PE experiences of pupils with disabilities while, at the same time, evaluating embodied pedagogy as a tool for better preparing PE teachers for their role as inclusive educators. Specifically, the article aimed to: (1) explore the PE experiences of a university student named Violeta who lived with the condition of Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI); (2) analyse the views of a group of prospective teachers who participated in a PE lesson (Experience 1) which included Violeta; and (3) examine the perceptions of a group of prospective teachers who participated in a simulated attempt at embodied pedagogy (Experience 2). Data were gathered using field notes, observations and interviews with Violeta and the prospective teachers who participated in Experience 1 and Experience 2. The findings suggest that in both Experience 1 and 2, the prospective teachers developed a greater aware of OI and a more positive attitude towards inclusive PE. That said, the nature of the student learning experience and their ability to empathetically imagine themselves in, and through, the bodies of others that were different from themselves varied significantly in Experience 1 and 2. Such a contrast, especially in relation to notions of alterity, related to the presence or absence of the other as a corporeal entity involved in the lessons. Neither Experience 1 or 2 was found to be 'better' than the other, they simply provided different contexts, resources and opportunities for learning to take place. We discuss some implications of these differences for those wishing to engage in embodied forms of pedagogy as a way helping prospective teachers to have the knowledge, skills and experience to develop a more inclusive culture in school PE.

Heidegger’s explanation in “What is thinking?” promoted a style of thinking which should approach the authentic condition of being; but it did not explain what thinking actually was. The following contributions does precisely that from out an operational point of view.
“The superiority of the Western culture… questioned” is in the first place aimed at discussing an assumption of this kind made by Kant. But as discursive thought is at the core of his view, a lot of attention went into explaining of having a thought and a step further how thoughts are the building blocks of narratives in technical sense and another step further still how narratives are functional. Because of this structural overview I would recommend it. (p. 7)
“The unbearable lightness of a thought” is yet another attempt to clarify the character of a thought. (p. 59)
“The thought as a phenomenon explained in a few steps” focuses on the relation of a thought and the idea of having an inner life. (p.69)
“The anatomy of a thought” analyzes the instance into it content, nature and form. (p.73)
“The anatomy of thinking and thought” rephrases Nagel’s famous quote into what is it like to have a conscious thought.(p.79)  It further discusses Searle’s free floating mind. (p.83)
“The anatomy of communicative interaction”. What is going on when people interact and exchange thoughts ergo information. How is that coming appreciated? (p.93)
“Styles of thinking” Thoughts come ordered in the form of different narratives. Twelve variants are discussed. (p. 111)
“Musings on Kahneman” Kahneman explained how two different styles of thinking dominate the scene of man thinking. It is a most interesting but also a hybrid model seducing into some confusion. This contribution sheds light on this and, integrates his model into that proposed in The Forgotten transition. (p.121)
The long road from interpretation to mental ability” The aim is to shed light on the act of interpretation and on the agreement respectively difference of the implementation of that function in non human animals and in humans. What is it for an animal to interpret an event and in what sense is that different to the act of interpreting performed by a human?  (p.133)
The reach of the human thought
This is about the trivial but stubbornly overlooked fact that thinking constituting knowledge is a purely human product. The qualification anthropomorphic refers to the way events and processes are understood in terms of human knowledge take for instance the attribution of human features on pets. The point made in this contribution is that the whole of knowledge is anthropomorphic. It reflects how the human species understand the world in contrast to the way other creatures do, refuting the suggestion that human knowledge mirrors how things really are out there. (p.147)
Synopsis offers in a concised format the core of the take on thinking. (p. 151)

Considerable research has been devoted in the fields of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and biosemiotics towards understanding the ways in which living organisms respond to the challenges of their environment and the evolutionary path of this development. Living organisms have come into existence as a result of recurring patterns of activity in the world and have responded to selected patterns in various ways. The recurring patterns of activity to which organisms respond are called objects. Charles Peirce saw that the ways in which organisms responded and the objects to which they were responding can be characterized by certain types of relations. He developed a number of different types but the ones most resonant in the literature are icon, index and symbol. His approach has been fruitful but had some inadequacies that have been discussed in my previous papers titled The Emergence of Agency and Crossing the Semiotic Threshold and A Biosemiotic Theory of Signs. The radical empiricism of Ernst Mach and William James emphasized that relations between experienced elements are as real and fundamental as the elements themselves. In contrast to Peirce who focused on the organism's sign behavior in mediating its response to the object, this paper focuses on the relation itself without giving primacy to either the organism or the environment. A fundamental problem in Peirce's approach is his attribution of sign behavior to all living organisms. For many organisms, the attribution of sign behavior seems unwarranted and better explained by other mechanisms. The approach in this paper is to focus on the interactions between the organism and the environment as characterized by the relations between the objects encountered and the organism's responses; towards this end the characterized interactions are called relation types which emphasize the relation rather than a mechanism of mediation. A typology of relation types in which the organism interacts with the environment are described in conjunction with their evolutionary development. This paper attempts to describe all the different relation types that have evolved in the animal world through the course of evolutionary history. One new form of relation type introduced in this paper is that of itech which is a habitual response in which humans are increasingly engaging with their intelligent devices and seems destined to become universal throughout the globe. In Peirce's theory a sign is a mediating entity in a relation type; no assumptions are made in this paper about the way in which relation types are implemented in the organism. The approach therefore can also accommodate the enactive/embodied mind framework which emphasizes the dynamic interaction between an organism, its body, and its environment. It provides a general framework for the types of interactions that take place between an organism and its environment.

This visual presentation reports on how a material-rooted methodology was utilised to construct pedagogic content in a gallery setting. We review the methodology utilised, titled Clay Cycle, and its potential for leading democratic and creative knowledge production in a pedagogic scenario-for those in addiction recovery. Particular attention is given to the methodology's roots in clays epistemic capacity, and how this intersects with the addiction recovery journey. We then present a case study, detailing how my Clay Cycle methodology was used to steer pedagogic creation/curation at The British Ceramics Biennial. An impact report is shared, which details the methodology's ability to instigate the curation of pedagogic content that enabled deep epistemic cognition relating to the addiction recovery journey. In particular, the way that Clay Cycle's reflexive, iterative, and cyclical process of presenting data 'back' to the individuals with lived experience, afforded 'space' for metacognition. Images of the clay-based pedagogic sessions (workshops) as featured, as will images of individuals and artists interacting with the messy and relational maps, that from the backbone of the methodology.

This article addresses the history of possession and preternatural interference through the lens of the senses. Because these sorts of cases featured the intersection of embodied and ephemeral perception, they provide singular opportunities to evaluate elite and popular conceptions of humans’ capacity to sense what lay within and beyond the natural realm. Possession cases also offer a prime opportunity to examine how attempts to ascribe meaning to bodily acts required that writers present the senses of afflicted individuals and those who attended them as intricately connected. Published possession texts thus provide an entry point from which to evaluate aspects of “intersensorality,” when witnesses appeared both to experience overlapping senses themselves and occasionally to find their perceptions linked with afflicted persons in ways that surpassed what was natural. The paper also examines the role that insensibility played in some instances of possession propaganda, both when subj...

This paper addresses, both theoretically and empirically, the sectoral patterns of job creation and job destruction in order to distinguish the alternative effects of embodied vs disembodied technological change operating into a vertically connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the “upstream’’ sectors, while expansionary investment does so in the “downstream’’ industries. Conversely, the replacement of obsolete capital vintages tends to exert a negative impact on labour demand, although this effect turns out to be statistically less robust.

Modeling the effect of context on interpretation, for the purposes of building intelligent systems, has been a long-standing problem: qualities of logic can restrict accurate contextual interpretation, even when there is only one context to consider. Stories offer a range of structures that could extend formal theories of context, indicating how arrays of inferred contexts are able to knit together, making an ontological reference that is specific to the particular set of circumstances embodied in the tale. This derived ontology shifts as the text unfolds, enabling constant revision and the emergence of unexpected meanings. The described approach employs dynamic knowledge representation techniques to model how these structures are built and changed. Two new operators have been designed for this purpose: governance and causal conceptual agents. As an example, a few lines from the story Red Riding Hood As a Dictator Would Tell It are used to demonstrate how a story interpretive framework can be continually re-made, in a way that produces unexpected interpretations of terms.

"Penser humain c’est penser avec le corps: c'est une pensée créatrice... Et c’est le spectateur qui fait exister ce qui n’existe pas, y compris la vérité »
Ce livre théorise une nouvelle généalogie de la création : incarnée, sensible, loin des mystères de l’inspiration, elle repose sur la circulation physique d’une énergie créatrice qui passe des oeuvres aux spectateurs. Créer, ici, est le fait d’un spectateur qui répond à un désir de connaître, qui donne une forme partagée à une vérité intime et qui, ce faisant, renouvelle sa nature profonde.

This paper presents a project whereby the Sony AIBO robot (ERS-220 model) was programmed to compose original music in real-time through direct interaction with its environment and people. It begins with a brief introduction to robotic applications in the arts and music. Then it introduces the technical issues encountered in realising the project (namely, AIBO's functionality and musical intelligence) followed by the proposed solutions. It presents AIBO-Max, a new tool that we implemented for programming AIBO combining Max/MSP and R-Code, and the musical composition system that is used in association with AIBO behaviours to generate the music.

Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective are seven dancer-scholars who centre embodied anti-racist praxis in our teaching across the fields of anthropology, sociology, African American and Africana studies, gender, sexuality and women’s studies, dance, and performance studies. Since 2019, the Un/Commoning Pedagogies Collective has engaged in consistent, process-based collaboration around teaching, scholarship, movement practice, and collegiality. We have co-authored essays, facilitated workshops, and given talks and performances. We also share syllabi, strategies, stories, milestones, failures, resources, and friendship. This writing is rooted in our ongoing collaborations and documents a co-generation of knowledge about the possibilities and tensions of teaching with and through our full-bodied selves. Moving beyond the syllabus, we offer you a glimpse into our concerns, commitments, experiences, and strategies as movement educators. We invite you to participate with us in a process of u...

This article reflects the outcome of semi-structured interviews conducted in early 2022 with UK patients who had covid-19, interfaced with healthcare system because of this, and self-identified as a fat woman (cis or trans) with at least one other vector of marginality (race, ethnicity, dis/ability, class, or sexuality). the rationale for the project was to complexify and advance ongoing studies into the experience of fat women in UK health care settings with research that focuses on covid-19 using an intersectional approach. this has been done by centering the narratives of individuals whose identities are made more complex as a result of the overlapping positions of marginalisation they inhabit. From our interviews with five self-identified fat women, we drew out themes of healthism, hyper(in)visibility, fat stigma, and intersectionality, which are explored here using inductive thematic analysis, putting the experiences of our participants in conversation with fat studies literature.

This paper introduces a comprehensive theory of quantum evolution that positions universal superposition and retroactive consciousness as fundamental mechanisms underlying the structure of a multidimensional cosmos. Arguing that time is an illusion created by the limitations of human perception, the author proposes that consciousness interacts with the quantum field by selecting variables within specific frequency ranges, giving rise to parallel, frequency-isolated realities. The work draws from quantum physics, quantum biology, neuroscience, and cosmology, presenting mathematical models to support its hypotheses. It explores the concept of consciousness as a non-local, retroactive force capable of reshaping the past following present decisions, and interprets artificial intelligence as a functional projection of universal information without subjective experience. The theory further suggests that the cosmos evolves by favoring coherent, high-frequency configurations aligned with a Higher Final Universe (VKS), serving as an organizing principle. Philosophical implications include a reevaluation of free will, the role of suffering and limitation, and the creative power of the observer in shaping reality. This speculative framework invites experimental exploration and provides a unifying perspective on matter, consciousness, and cosmic evolution.

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The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services and their integration in intelligent environments creates the need for a simple yet effective way of controlling and communicating with them. Towards such a direction, this work presents ParlAmI, a conversational framework featuring a multimodal chatbot that permits users to create simple “if-then” rules to define the behavior of an intelligent environment. ParlAmI delivers a disembodied conversational agent in the form of a messaging application named MAI, and an embodied conversational agent named nAoMI employing the programmable humanoid robot NAO. This paper describes the requirements and architecture of ParlAmI, the infrastructure of the “Intelligent Home” in which ParlAmI is deployed, the characteristics and functionality of both MAI and nAoMI, and finally presents the findings of a user experience evaluation that was conducted with the participation of sixteen users.

Objective: This paper introduces and extends the concept of seam interfacesneurocognitive transition zones mediating the dynamic interaction between externally imposed social roles and internally activated sub-personality modules-within the framework of the Role-Autonomy Model of Sub-Personality Dynamics (RAMSD). Theoretical Approach: Seam interfaces are conceptualized as adaptive hubs of internetwork connectivity, primarily involving the Default Mode Network (DMN) (Buckner, Andrews-Hanna, & Schacter, 2008), Salience Network (SN) (Menon & Uddin, 2010), and Executive Control Network (ECN) (Seeley et al., 2007), which orchestrate the switching, integration, and conflict resolution mechanisms between autobiographical identity and contextually cued behavior (cf. Shine et al., 2019). This framework integrates contemporary neuroscience of selfhood (Frewen et al., 2020), embodied cognition, affective regulation, and clinical observations in trauma, dissociation, and role rigidity. Propositions: Dysfunctional seam activity gives rise to measurable disturbances in cognitive-affective integration, manifesting as role dissociation (disconnection between action and self), sub-personality stagnation (inflexibility despite context), and neuroemotional block (affective shutdown or dissonance). These syndromes are behaviorally and neurologically tractable (Friston & Frith, 2015). Implications: The model informs the design of experimental protocols (e.g., ERP-based role-switching tasks), development of psychometric instruments, agent-based simulations of identity adaptation, and novel therapeutic interventions targeting inter-network coherence and role fluidity through neurofeedback, cognitive reframing, and embodied integration techniques (Porges, 2011).

For three consecutive semesters (2014)(2015)(2016), we conducted an action research project attempting for the first time to introduce in blended education context an e-course, in the Faculty of Communication and Media of Athens University. The first author constructed the e-course by utilising the open source learning management system -Moodle, the prototype model of digital learning called 'Interactive Evaluation' that was embodied in the design of the e-course and in the cycles of action research. The second author, whose notes and bibliography of the conventional course have been transformed to meet our social constructionist approach to distance learning, acted as critical friend for the research projects. This paper summarises our answers to the following questions: (1) How have we dealt with the 'expressed' interest of students? (2) What were the critical events that occurred during the course and how have we responded to them? (3) What are the factors that affected students' participation in the various modules of the e-course? Our intention is to explore the ways in which the management of the e-courses has come to interconnect with built pedagogy through the implementation of interactive evaluation.

This agenda-setting workshop will bring together HCI researchers and designers with colleagues from sociology, media, and communications to generate an interdisciplinary research agenda for digital communication beyond human-centric replication. It argues that the dominance of a human-centric replication paradigm in digital communication is problematic, constraining, limits digital innovation, and continues to unquestionably place humans at the center of digital futures with negative social implications for modes of digital communication and how we relate to one another. This workshop will explore and foster alternative visions of digital communication, drawing inspiration from animal and plant sensory worlds (through inspirational talks, hands-on-activities, discussion) to generate ideas towards a new way of thinking and working in sensorial immersion beyond the human-centric. We will address key research opportunities and challenges and build the foundations for a road-map for this novel area of research. • Human-centered computing → Interaction paradigms; HCI theory, concepts and models; Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms.

Correctional institutions such as youth detention centres are highly emotional places, yet there are only a few studies of youth in locked institutions that take emotions as their starting point, and those who do primarily focus on explosive affects. Drawing on video ethnographic data from a Swedish youth detention home, this study highlights a mild form of joking, what we call 'banal humour', employed by staff and youth as a form of affective practice. Grounded in critical humour studies and affect theory, the paper demonstrates how banal humour contributes to maintaining positive affects, and to mitigate both anger and embarrassment, while simultaneously constructing social order and producing desirable subjectivities in the detention centre.

Virtual exchange refers to technology-enabled online communication between people who are geographically separated from each other. It has been increasingly adopted in education in the past two decades, especially since early 2020 when teachers and students were forced to move to an online mode of teaching and international exchange owing to the most recent pandemic. The current study is based on a nine-week virtual exchange project that took place between 22 students learning Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) from a British university and their partners from a Chinese university. The subjects conversed online with each other on self-directed topics on a weekly basis, and they completed their collaboration project for showcasing in the final week. From a translanguaging perspective, naturally occurring online conversations between intercultural interlocutors were investigated through the method of multimodal conversation analysis (MCA). The students leveraged a range of linguistic...

In this essay, we attempt to demonstrate several key things-1. We are guided by the following reasoning methods-Occam's razor (simplicity), Holmes Shroud (falsifiability), and Alan Newell's Unified Theories of Cognition (teleology, basically goal-orientation, guides all real computation, there is no way to design a computer that doesn't solve some problem) This

Here is the full text of Living, Minding World, published complete at last. The central project of this book was to investigate the implications of modern science for serious existential and religious thought, so its concluding chapter reviews the social and cognitive functions of religion from a historical perspective before summarizing the contribution to these functions from current science, as the author sees them. The main body of the book is taken up with a survey of relevant, current science which sometimes jumps ahead of the existing consensus to anticipate where the author believes the research is going. For example, it accepts Nicholas Humphrey’s theory of phenomenal consciousness as the working of a mind which has evolved some capability to monitor its own operations. It accepts and argues for the view of the so-called 'Third Way' movement that genetic change is not entirely random but partly influenced by life-style choices of the living organisms – eg through sexual selection, the Baldwin effect, and epigenetic mechanisms.
One key thesis of the book is the author's view that current science – notably computer science – is mistaken in regarding information as the fundamental content of human thought and communication. It introduces the notion of 'suggestion' as a term of art roughly meaning 'attempted influence'; it considers information as a suggestion that some coded statement is 'true'; and it goes on to reject the dualist theory of 'mind' by arguing that what we call 'mind' is really a process of 'minding' – ie of processing suggestions (competing influences). The crucial points about suggestion are:
a) that it is a weak form of causation exerted by one system on another, which influences without determining the receiving system's behaviour; and
b) that in itself, it is neither true or false, though it may be evaluated and compared with alternative suggestions in many other ways. 
Taking 'suggestion' as a fundamental idea, it becomes possible to understand how human consciousness could emerge in a physical system without supernatural assistance. It becomes possible to understand the seeming intelligence and creativity of Nature as Spinoza did: as a spontaneous property of Nature itself, without the volition of an external Creator. It becomes possible to understand and weigh the suggestions from current science that organized human groups, human society as a whole, the biosphere of planet Earth, and even perhaps this entire universe, are living, minding systems with which relationship is possible.

This article examines the compatibility of Predictive Processing Theory (PPT), or the theory of anticipatory brain, with other contemporary scientific and philosophical frameworks that offer promising approaches to explaining consciousness and mind in general. It analyzes the connections between PPT and theories that include the body and the environment in structuring our concepts of reality, such as that of embodied and situated consciousness—4E cognition, as well as Cognitive Linguistics with its understanding of Conceptual Metaphor. At the same time, it investigates the metaphysical strategy of PPT, which fits into the current philosophical project of naturalization and its associated strong dependence on the natural sciences. It explores the contributions of key theorists in the field such as Carl Friston, Jacob Hohwy, Andy Clark, and Anil Seth.

Reading is said to be one of the process of gaining knowledge. The medium of reading evolved from leaves, barks, parchments, paper and now to digital screen. The paper is the medium which was used singly and predominantly for multiple decades and still it's in vogue. Reading is pursued not only in academic environment but in every context of knowing and learning; the reading is a basic and lifelong activity. The vital role of reading in education and learning has lead to infinite number of research in the field. Studies of Anderson & Pearson(1984),Decant(19910 and Mulis et al (2009) have shown that reading significantly contributes to one's personal and intellectual development, further studies, job success, career development and the capability to meet the challenges. The digital reading is the preferred medium for the youth and the tech-savvy individuals. Obviously, print is still the most preferred medium for the older generations.The strategies and comprehension involved in reading through different medium differs a lot. The merits and demerits of reading through the digital medium and print medium is analyzed and discussed in detail.

This paper introduces the theory of Reversed Consciousness, a paradigm that challenges conventional models of intelligence and brain function. It posits that individuals with profoundly gifted cognitive architecture experience a reversal in the dominance of large-scale brain networks: rather than the Task-Positive Network (TPN) guiding action and attention, the Default Mode Network (DMN) becomes the center of conscious processing. These individuals require deep meaning before engagement, think in abstract emotional intuitions, and filter perception through a philosophically oriented lens. The theory bridges neuroscience with phenomenological experience and offers a framework for understanding the neurological foundations of visionary, meaning-driven intelligence.

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Nessa palestra, ministrada pelo professor Andy Clark e disponível no canal do YouTube da Royal Institution desde o dia 04/03/2024, é apresentado um quadro geral acerca do conceito do Cérebro Preditivo. Originalmente intitulada “How the Brain Shapes Reality”, a palestra oferece uma visão integrada do cérebro enquanto máquina preditiva hierárquica. Partindo de exemplos clínicos e ilusões perceptuais, Clark apresenta o modelo de processamento preditivo, segundo o qual a percepção emerge de comparações contínuas entre predições internas e sinais sensoriais, mediadas por erros de predição e ponderações de precisão moduladas por neurotransmissores e ritmos neurais. São discutidas as implicações desse quadro para fenômenos cotidianos (vibrações fantasma, ilusão da máscara oca), para variações neurotípicas (p.ex., autismo) e para condições clínicas (alucinações, dor crônica, transtornos neurológicos funcionais). A fala do professor Clark descreve, ainda, intervenções que “hackeiam” o cérebro preditivo — placebo, realidade virtual, reprocessamento da dor, meditação — evidenciando sua eficácia como ajustes de pesos de precisão. Por fim, são delineados desafios conceituais e empíricos atuais, desde a implementação neural das predições até o problema da consciência, sugerindo que o paradigma preditivo promete uma “tabela periódica” da experiência humana, capaz de unificar neurociência, psiquiatria e ciências cognitivas.

Transcrevi, traduzi e adaptei essa palestra do professor Andy Clark na esperança de ajudar a disseminar, no Brasil e em outras nações lusófonas, esse interessante conceito do Cérebro Preditivo.

Moving beyond traditional descriptive phenomenology, this work introduces "Phenomenological Translation" as a means to actively explain the cognitive underpinnings of attention. This involves modeling mechanisms and their influence on the qualia of conscious experience, providing a bridge between neurocognitive processes and the qualitative aspects of human cognition. The resulting framework offers a unified understanding of attention, encompassing both selective and generative functions, grounded in the "what it's like" of attentional control.

The limits of human understanding are the perennial concern of the genre of romance in both tragic and comic versions. It isn’t surprising, thus, to find parallels between romance motifs and cognitive science theories of knowing. I discuss Jackendoff’s gradient categorization, the speech act theories of Austin with revisions by Searle, and the developmental psychology Theory of Mind, as the building blocks of our current embodied understanding of understanding in examples from Malory’s Morte Darthur, Cavell’s comedies of remarriage, and Mike Nichol’s The Graduate. The recent predictive processing hypothesis, however, at once the most detailed in neurological terms and also the most abstract, describes human cognitive competence itself as a romance. The hypothesis demonstrates the centrality of error in human cognition by describing how mistakes as the trigger for a loop of correction and revision. It allows us as literary scholars to appreciate how artists have rewritten the romance story fitting the genre to current concerns, while remaining true to its cognitive base. Romance is itself the story of being human. We make mistakes, but we are evolved to correct them. Romance is the genre of retrying.

The Prime Symbolic Resonance Field Explorer (PSRFE) presents a novel computational and visualization framework that explores the relational structure of prime numbers through a symbolic lens. Building upon established research in number theory (Ribenboim, 1996), dynamical systems (Strogatz, 2000), and graph theory (Newman, 2010), this work generates symbolic fingerprints for prime numbers and constructs coherence-based resonance graphs, revealing emergent patterns analogous to protein folding in biological systems (Anfinsen, 1973). We formalize the mathematical foundations for symbolic prime relationships, introduce a spiral embedding with digital root harmonics inspired by geometric number theory (Mazur, 2006), and detail metrics for symbolic coherence and resonance. The framework bridges number theory, symbolic cognition (Dehaene, 2011), and complex systems science (Mitchell, 2009), suggesting that meaningful structure emerges from relational networks of primes in a manner parallel to the emergence of function in biological systems (Kauffman, 1993). The system's potential applications range from number-theoretical research to investigations of emergent semantic meaning in complex symbolic systems, complementing existing work on mathematical beauty and pattern recognition (Changizi, 2011).

The study of neural dysfunction has historically been dominated by a reductionist perspective, which often attributes mental disorders to specific, localized issues within the brain, such as lesions, neurochemical imbalances, or static anatomical defects. This viewpoint, while providing foundational knowledge, tends to overlook the inherently dynamic and interconnected nature of brain function [Karasz et al., 2022]. However, contemporary cognitive neuroscience is increasingly recognizing the brain as a complex, self-organizing system that actively constructs and updates internal models of the world. This paradigm shift emphasizes the role of predictive processing, where the brain continuously generates expectations about sensory inputs and revises these predictions based on incoming information. Within this evolving landscape, the Unified Dynamic Model of Mind (UDMM) emerges as a framework that seeks to redefine neural dysfunction by focusing on failures in the dynamic coordination of prediction, updating, and integration processes. This approach challenges the notion of isolated pathologies and instead proposes that dysfunction arises from distributed issues within the brain's dynamic modeling mechanisms.

Bu çalışmanın amacı, çeşitli sebeplerle farklılaşan itikadi mezhepler arasındaki tartışmaların zamanla tamamen kavramsal bir boyuta evrildiğini ortaya koymak ve kavramlar arası ayrışmanın olası nedenlerini ele almaktır. İtikadi ekoller kendi içlerinde özgün terminoloji geliştirerek yöntemlerini ve fikirlerini geniş kitleleri aktarmışlardır. Onların geçirmiş olduğu her türlü evre kavramlara değişik anlamlar yüklemelerine sebebiyet vermiştir. İslam'ın ilk dönemlerinden itibaren, inanç esasları üzerine yapılan tartışmalarda kullanılan terimlerin anlamlarının farklı yorumlanması, mezheplerin teolojik konumlarında derin ayrışmalara yol açmış, bu da İslam dünyasında mezhepler arasındaki görüş ayrılıklarını daha da keskinleştirmiştir. Çalışmada bu çatışmaların kavramsal boyutu ortaya koyulacaktır. Kelâm disiplini içindeki kavramların mezhepsel çatışmaları derinleştirdiğine, ayrışmaların temel bir nedeni olduğuna veya bu kavramların ortaya çıkış motivasyonlarına dair doğrudan bir çalışma bulunmamaktadır. Literatürdeki bu boşluk çalışmanın özgünlüğü olarak değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmanın başlangıçta dil, düşünce, varlık ilişkisine, kavram ve ıstılah tanımlarına değinilmiştir. Daha sonra kelam disiplininde kavramların farklılaşmasının muhtemel sebepleri üzerinde durulmuştur. Sonuç olarak makale, İslam düşünce tarihindeki mezhepsel tartışmaların büyük ölçüde kavramsal bir zeminde gerçekleştiğini ortaya koymakta ve mezhepler arasındaki ayrışmaları anlamak ve çözümlemek için kavramların tarihsel süreçte geçirdiği dönüşüm ile mezheplerin bu kavramlara yüklediği anlamların doğru bir şekilde analiz edilmesi gerektiğini vurgulamaktadır.

My aim in this article is threefold. First, to identify the function of tautology in Catholic Charismatic religious practices. Second, to analyze the formal structure of tautology as an embodied regime of citationality. Third, to expose how Charismatic practice both mirrors and anticipates the unfolding dramaturgy of sovereignty within current populism in Brazil and elsewhere. These aims converge in a reflection on the nature of political theater within and beyond political theology.

We study the emergence of intelligent behavior within a simple intelligent agent. Cognitive agent functions are realized by mechanisms based on neural networks and evolutionary algorithms. The evolutionary algorithm is responsible for the adaptation of a neural network parameters based on the performance of the embodied agent endowed by different neural network architectures. In experiments, we demonstrate the performance of evolutionary algorithm in the problem of agent learning where it is not possible to use traditional supervised learning techniques. A case study of three different trained neural networks is performed.

The paper argues first that the climate, trade and water communities should leave aside their prejudices, and it provides clear evidence that the three communities confront the same vested interests when trying to solve their common problem of free riding. Then, it argues that such strong similarities speak in favour of ‘sister’ world regimes in these three domains. These sister regimes should first share the key principles of non‐discrimination (national treatment (NT) and most favoured nation) embodied in the WTO. Second, by contrast, the climate and water communities should review the other WTO rules to adapt them to their specific demands when needed. Interestingly, when doing so, these two communities may provide much needed inspiration for improving some rules of the current trade regime. Finally, the climate and water regimes may also adopt provisions on pricing that are not needed by the trade regime, which deals mostly with well functioning markets.

Introduction: This study explores how drone movements and human bodily gestures influence spectators' perceptions, focusing on physical and emotional involvement, aesthetic appreciation, and time perception. Methods: Inspired by the iconic staircase scene from the Soviet film The Cranes Are Flying (1957), a set of 81 naturalistic video stimuli was created using a dronemounted camera, varying in Drone Movement (Ascending, Descending, Still), Human Presence (Female, Male, None), and Image Speed (Normal, Low, Very Slow). Participants evaluated each video based on Liking, Perceived Movement, Physical Involvement, Emotional Involvement and Perceived Duration. Results and discussion: Results showed that ascending movements elicited the highest levels of perceived movement, aesthetic appreciation and emotional engagement, outperforming descending and still movements. These results could be explained by a stronger sense of effort and exertion associated with ascending movements, aligning with the embodied simulation of upward motion against gravity. Human presence significantly enhanced ratings across all metrics compared to videos without human figures, thus suggesting that bodily movements play a crucial role in evoking stronger viewer involvement. Additionally, the Female condition received higher aesthetic ratings. Notably, normal image speed yielded greater perceived movement and physical involvement than slowed footage, highlighting a stronger connection to the natural rhythm of bodies in motion. Furthermore, ascending and descending conditions were perceived as lasting longer than still, corroborating prior research on time perception distortions with dynamic stimuli. Correlation analysis highlighted a strong link between physical involvement, emotional engagement, and aesthetic appreciation, underscoring the interplay between bodily and emotional responses. This study emphasizes the potential of drone-based cinematography to evoke embodied and emotional responses, reinforcing the role of embodied simulation theory in cinematic experiences.