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Von: Stephen Campbell <sencael@uci.edu>
An: Marco Bettoni <m.bettoni@fhbb.ch>
Betreff: Enactivism
Datum: Dienstag, 12. Januar 1999 21:48

Hi Marco,

Thanks for initiating such a interesting thread on the KANT-L. I thought,
from some of the things you mentioned that your were doing, that you might
find a book (if you haven't heard of it already) by Francisco Varela, Evan
Thompson, and Elenor Rosche (1991) called "The Embodied Mind" to be of
interest. In this book they draw upon Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of
Perception (which questions any strict distinction between subject and
object, preferring more to see the two as interdependent and co-emergent)
to present a new theory of evolution and cognition they refer to as
"Enactivism." They cite Rodney Brooks work at MIT on robotics as an example
of an enactivist approach...

Ciao,

Sen

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