Essays about: "Enactivism"
Found 2 essays containing the word Enactivism.
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1. The Intelligible Necessitation of Consciousness : From ”panpsychism” to autopoietic enactivism
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudierAbstract : Panpsychism, the view that fundamental physical entities are basic phenomenal subjects, is motivated by a commitment to explaining human subjects of experience, as well as by a rejection of the possibility that phenomenal properties are arbitrarily necessitated – human subjects of experience are thought to only be possible if prefigured by more basic phenomenal subjecthood. In this paper I will consider autopoietic enactivism as an alternative to panpsychism when it comes to explaining human subjects of experience on the basis of subjective precursors. READ MORE
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2. A Critique of the Learning Brain
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för teoretisk filosofiAbstract : The guiding question for this essay is: who is the learner? The aim is to examine and criticize one answer to this question, sometimes referred to as the theory of the learning brain, which suggests that the explanation of human learning can be reduced to the transmitting and storing of information in the brain’s formal and representational architecture, i.e. READ MORE