To what extent does embodiment play a critical role in everyday life? Using the material that was presented in the lectures.
To what extent does embodiment play a critical role in everyday life
Together with additional reading, your essay should critically evaluate the extent to which embodiment influences everyday behaviour partly done by critically evaluating related studies. There is no right or wrong answer here. Any viewpoint can be adopted, what matters is that your position is evidence base. Referencing should follow APA guidelines. Starting questions: 1. What is embodiment? 2. How and when does it occur? 3. Have embodiment effects been overstated?
Profoundly embodied
Firstly, Western culture has inherited a view of understanding as an intellectual cognitive operation of grasping of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive science research has shown that this received intellectualist conception is substantially out of touch with how humans actually make and experience meaning.
The view emerging from the mind sciences recognizes that understanding is profoundly embodied, insofar as our conceptualization and reasoning recruit sensory, motor, and affective patterns and processes to structure our understanding of, and engagement with, our world. A psychologically realistic account of understanding must begin with the patterns of ongoing interaction between an organism and its physical and cultural environments and must include both our emotional responses to changes in our body and environment, and also the actions by which we continuously transform our experience. Consequently, embodied understanding is not merely a conceptual
Introduction
Firstly, the term “biofunctional understanding” was introduce by Iran-Nejad in a technical report in 1980 and subsequently elaborate in a number of publications . It is an especially apt expression for the way we should approach a theory of human understanding. It reminds us that to see how our capacities for understanding. Also, and reasoning ground in biological processes of organism-environment interaction. The “bio” component refers to the fact that biological organisms evolve both. To sustain in our person the conditions of life and to enhance its quality.
Attachments
Download