Being There
Subtitle: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: January 9, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780262531566
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Cognition & cognitive psychology; Neurosciences; Philosophy Of Mind; Philosophy; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Neuropsychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; General; Mind & Body
First sentence: Where are the artificial minds promised by 1950s science fiction and 1960s science journalism?
Description: The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity.

From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.