CH.26

Question 1

lived body

Answer 1

in phenomenology, the body is considered to experience, perceive, and act; this conception is contrasted with the physical body, which is considered to be merely a material thing in the world of other material things.

Question 2

affordances

Answer 2

opportunities for action in the environment for a particular organism. These are determined by both the abilities of the organism and its physical
environment.

Question 3

dynamical systems

Answer 3

a set of variables that change together concurrently and continuously over time, explained using the tools of dynamical systems theory, a branch of calculus. Dynamical systems and dynamical systems theory are key
explanatory tools in embodied cognitive science (see Chapter 11).

Question 4

subsumption architecture

Answer 4

a layered robot control system where higher control layers can be constructed from the activity of lower control layers, resulting in greater behavioral competence

Question 5

autopoiesis

Answer 5

literally, “self-making” or “self-producing.” According to enactivists, living systems are autopoietic systems, and autopoiesis is necessary for cognition.

Question 6

direct perception

Answer 6

the claim, by ecological psychologists, that perceptual contact with the environment is not mediated by mental representations.

Question 7

embodiment

Answer 7

the emphasis on the role that the body plays in how we experience
the world, especially in terms of the coupling between action and perception.

Question 8

representationalism

Answer 8

the view that mental contents represent states of the world
(see Chapter 13); enactivism rejects representationalism, while some varieties of embodied cognitive science accept it.