Abstract

The Embodied Mind provides a unique, sophisticated treatment of the spontaneous and reflective dimension of human experience. The authors argue that only by having a sense of common ground between mind in Science and mind in experience can our understanding of cognition be more complete. Toward that end, they develop a dialogue between cognitive science and Buddhist meditative psychology and situate it in relation to other traditions such as phenomenology and psychoanalysis.

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Embodied cognitionPhenomenology (philosophy)BuddhismPsychologyRelation (database)CognitionEpistemologyPhilosophy of mindCognitive scienceDimension (graph theory)PhilosophyComputer scienceMetaphysics

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1991
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Francisco J. Varela, Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson (1991). The Embodied Mind. The MIT Press eBooks . https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/6730.001.0001

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