English Theme 45 3.1-3.2

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English Theme 45 3.1-3.2

• Date Apr 24, 2007
• Room 8-405
• Instructor Mafuyu Kitahara
• Material Thelen, E. (1995) Time-scale dynamics
  and the development of an embodied cognition in
  R. Port and T. van Gelder (eds.) Mind as motion,
  Cambridge MIT Press

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• Dominant metaphor for human cognition
• Serial computation step-by-step
• Biologically implausible
• Symbolic use numbers and words
• Modular assembly of parts
• Dichotomy data-program, hard-soft,
  knowledge-performance
• Dynamics ? answer to all
• Plus, explain
• Individual, context-sensitive, categorical nature

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• Mind-body dualism philosophical question
• Dynamics ? a new insight
• Development in time, continuous, changing
• Embodied thinking inseparable from body
• Mind-body united all the lifetime.

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• Metaphor for dynamics water flow
• No central control
• Context-sensitive
• Change over time
• Nonlinear dynamical equations
• E.g. MxkxSx F(t) p.80
• Developed for complex systems
• But, think deeper!
• Implications and fundamental truths