Where Should the Embodied Cognition Go?—Also on the Origin,Visions and Concerns of the Second-generation Cognitive Science
The second-generation cognitive science,represented by embodied cognition,challenges the"physical symbol system hypothesis"and its derived computational representation.Its core view is to explain that all of our perceptual,cognitive,and motor abilities are constitutively dependent on aspects of the agent's body.Based on the above consensus,the 4E cognition has drawn a vision of the second-generation cognitive science by highlighting the role of the perceptual-motor system in the cognitive process,cognitive affordance,and the concept of embodiment based on perceptual experience.How-ever,the spell of neuron reductionism,the reproducibility of empirical evidence,the lack of explana-tions and the dissolution of the predictive processing on the cognitive"sandwich model"all warn of the methodological pitfalls of the second-generation cognitive science.Due to the lack of explanation,the reliability and validity of embodied cognitive effect are often questioned.From the epistemological ori-gin,the resolution of the cognitive"sandwich model"by predictive processing transcends the historical deadlock in the debate between the two generations of cognitive science on physical and mental issues.Many difficulties encountered by embodied cognition at present warn that there are still hidden worries in methodology in the second generation of cognitive science,and the future debate on the purpose,method,conceptual basis and motivation of embodied cognition will continue to provide new inspira-tion for the exchange,confrontation and blending of multi-disciplines within cognitive science.
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