5 April, Miguel SEGUNDO ORTIN & ​Daniel HUTTO [WEBINAR]

5 April 2019
h 8-10 - Greenwhich Mean Time 
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Miguel SEGUNDO ORTIN & ​Daniel HUTTO 

(University of Wollongong)

​Similarity-Based Cognition:
Radical Enactivism meets Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract

Similarity-based cognition is apparently commonplace. It occurs whenever an agent or system exploits the similarities that holding between two or more items — e.g. events, processes, objects, and so on— in order to perform cognitive tasks. This kind of cognition is of special interest to cognitive neuroscience. This presentation explicates how similarity-based cognition can be understood through the lens of radical enactivism and why doing so have advantages over its representationalist rival which posit the existence of structural representations or S-representations. Specifically, it is argued that there are problems accounting for the content of S-representations and in understanding how that putative content of such representations makes a casual difference in guiding intelligent behavior. Finally, it is clarified in which respect adopting a radically enactive account of similarity-based cognition commits to an eliminativist take on neurodynamics and which respect it does not.