From Representation Reasoning to Picking up Affordances:How the Radical Embodiment Trend Changes Cognitive Science
Representationalism interprets cognition as the inferential manipulation of representational symbols with semantic content.Representations serve as mediators between perception and action,constituting a core assumption in classical cognitive science.However,the dualistic stance has been challenged in contemporary discourse.To de-fend the plausibility of representationalism,the theory of action-oriented representation is proposed.Nevertheless,situating representations within actions essentially negates the notion of representation,aligning closer to Gibson's concept of affordance:cognition is a direct coupling process of perception and action,in which agents can pick up affordances directly without any fixed states or symbols.Through integration with methodologies such as dynamical systems,the affordance theory offers a novel perspective on the essence of cognition:replacing entities and attrib-utes with processes and relationships.This new perspective not only plays a crucial methodological role in cognitive science but also holds significant philosophical implications for ontology and value theory.
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