Posted in Perception, Psychology, Technology, tagged bodily perception, drone pilots, embodied, embodiment, Las Vegas, lived experience, New York Times, Perception, predator drones, sensory cues, sensory isolation, situational awareness, unmanned drones on January 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to a recent New York Times article, military pilots of unmanned Predator drones, who operate the drones from Las Vegas, over 7,500 miles away from where the drones are flying, experience more fatigue than actual pilots flying manned planes. The reason? Sensory isolation.
Since drone pilots operate remotely, they rely entirely upon cameras mounted on [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, Linguistics, Mathematics, Monday Profile, Neuroscience, Psychology, philosophy, tagged Aymara, cognitive linguistics, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied cognition, Embodied Cognition Laboratory, embodiment, George Lakoff, mathematical cognition, Platonism, Rafael E. Núñez, Rafael Nunez, spontaneous gestures, UCSD, Where Mathematics Comes From on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rafael E. Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. He is, of course, a major proponent of embodied cognition and his monumental work, Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being, written with George Lakoff, has revolutionized the understanding of mathematical cognition.
The publication [...]
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Posted in Epistemology, Existentialism, Monday Profile, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, philosophy, tagged bodily perception, body-subject, cartesianism, cogito, conception, Descartes, developmental psychology, empiricism, idealism, intellectualism, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty, Mind, mind and body, Perception, Phenomenology, phenomenology of perception, philosophy, Psychology, subject and object on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was a French philosopher and phenomenologist. He continues to be credited as the most influential figure in the development of a philosophical understanding of the importance of the body and corporeality.
His most central work in this regard is The Phenomenology of Perception. Through a phenomenological examination of perception, Merleau-Ponty argued for [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Conceptual Metaphor, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Perception, Psychology, Video, philosophy, tagged affection is warmth, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied metaphor, embodied mind, embodiment, frames, framing, George Lakoff, Lakoff, metaphor, more is up, the political mind, Video on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Although it’s a segment within a discussion about political framing, in this video clip George Lakoff discusses how embodiment comes to frame our ideas and perception through conceptual metaphor.
Within, he discusses how every word, in every language, is defined relative to a frame.
He also theorizes about the embodied source of certain well studied conceptual [...]
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Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Call for Papers, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Conferences/Symposia, Perception, Psychology, Robotics, Technology, tagged Call for Papers, Cognitive Science, embodiment, HRI, human-robot interaction, Psychology, robot companions, Robotics, robots, Social Studies, Technology on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A fascinating symposium will be held April 8-9 in 2009 about human-robot interaction (HRI) in Edinburgh, Scotland:
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a growing research field with many application areas that could have a big impact not only economically, but also on the way we live and the kind of relationships we may develop with machines. Due [...]
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Posted in Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, Perception, Psychology, tagged Cognitive Science, Conceptual Metaphor, embodied cognition, embodiment, metaphor, power of suggestion, Psychological Science, Psychology on November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A new study appearing in the journal of Psychological Science suggests that the metaphor of social coldness can make the body actually feel cold.
Subjects in the study, when shrugged off and left socially isolated, believed that room temperature was significantly lower than subjects who were involved in social interaction. The study also found that [...]
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