| Abstrakt: |
According to author Simon Penny, Making Sense: Cognition, Computing, and Embodiment is about intelligence, cognition, and the impact of culture and technology. However, it is also a study in numerous contrasts, among them: biological being vs. computationally simulated being, civilian research vs. military research, representation vs performance, art practice vs. media practice, and mind-body dualism vs embodied cognition. "How do all these things "it together?" he asks, in the introduction. And the answer is, they don't quite 'it together, yet. Although the revelation of false dichotomy isn't quite the same thing as a new paradigm, when a series of cognitive schemata break down, something new has to take their place and Penny lays the groundwork for what that new something may look like. He offers several promising areas in the biology of mind and brain that deal with the situated and embodied nature of consciousness and thinking, but his uberobjective is this: to restore the arts to a place of esteem in higher thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
