Embodied or Ecological Cognition is an offshoot of cognitive science that rejects or minimizes one of its axioms: that the computer is a good analogy for the brain. That is, that the brain receives inputs from the senses; computes with that input as well as with goals, plans, and stored representations of the world; issues instructions to the body; and GOTO PERCEPTION. The offshoot gives a larger causal role to the environment and the body, and a lesser role to the brain. Why store instructions in the brain if the arrangement of body-in-environment can be used to make it automatic?
This episode contains explanations of fairly unintelligent behavior. Using them, I fancifully extract five design rules that a designer-of-animals might have used. In the next episode, I'll apply those rules to workplace and process design. In the final episode, I'll address what the offshoot has to say about more intelligent behavior.
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The picture of a diving gannet is from the Busy Brains at Sea blog, and is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Deed.
E45: The offloaded brain, part 5: I propose a software design style
E44: The offloaded brain, part 4: an interview with David Chapman
E43: The offloaded brain, part 3: dynamical systems
E42: The offloaded brain, part 2: applications
EXCERPT: Concepts without categories
EXCERPT: Christopher Alexander’s forces
E40: Roles in collaborative circles, part 2: creative roles
E39: Roles in collaborative circles, part 1
E38: The trajectory of a collaborative circle
E37: Resilience engineering with Lorin Hochstein
E36: BONUS: One circle-style history of Context-Driven Testing
BONUS: a circle-centric reading of software development through the 1990s, plus screech owls
E34: /Collaborative Circles/, part 1: a teaser
E33: Interview: Jessica Kerr on /Games: Agency as Art/
E32: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 3: expertise, panopticism, and the Big Visible Chart
E31: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 2: the factory
E30: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, and voluntary panopticism, part 1
E29: Interview: Trond Hjorteland on a radical approach to organizational transformation
E28: /Governing the Commons/, part 4: creating a successful commons
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