📰 Too Much Sense: How to Save Humans in a World of AI Machines

Discover how the book "The Excess of Meaning" defends humans against AI reductionism. Explore the importance of embodiment, neuroscience, and the humanities in a machine world. Check it out!

https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/nadmiar-sensu-jak-ocalic-czlowieka-w-swiecie-maszyn

#reductionism #artificialintelligence #embodiedcognition #glialcells #algorithmcolonialism

Today's "Brain Snack": How the mind and body are connected and some surprising results with regard to depressive symptoms!

"How Your Body Influences Your Wandering Mind"

https://open.substack.com/pub/leadingbrainsreview/p/brain-snack-how-your-body-influences?r=59dsl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#brain #neuroscience #brainbody #embodiedcognition #depression

Cognition emerges from embodied engagement with the world, rather than abstract mental processing. The notion centers on achieving an optimal grip that makes perception and action smoothly attuned to situational demands. The framework links phenomenology with enactive and ecological approaches, portraying thinking as a dynamic relationship between body and environment.

This perspective interests psychology readers by foregrounding how perception and action are shaped by the body and context, offering a bridge between phenomenology and modern cognitive science. It also links personality and cognition to patterns of grip, illustrating how everyday functioning can reflect deeper relational dynamics.

Article Title: Cognition might emerge from embodied “grip” with the world rather than abstract mental processes

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/cognition-might-emerge-from-embodied-grip-with-the-world-rather-than-abstract-mental-processes/

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#EmbodiedCognition #Phenomenology #OptimalGrip #EmbodiedMind #Psychology

La percezione non è una scienza del mondo, non è nemmeno un atto, una presa di posizione deliberata, ma è lo sfondo sul quale si staccano tutti gli atti ed è da questi presupposta.

Il mondo non è un oggetto di cui io posseggo nel mio intimo la legge di costituzione, ma è l'ambiente naturale, il campo di tutti i miei pensieri e di tutte le mie percezioni esplicite.

La verità non "abita" soltanto "l'uomo interiore", o meglio, non vi è alcun uomo interiore: l'essere umano è nel mondo e nel mondo egli si conosce.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1945

#MerleauPonty #PiegheSciolte #CuraDiSè #percezione #EmbodiedCognition #perception #EpimeleiaHeautou #SouciDeSoi

Ci percepiamo come fissi e armonici, ma l'essere umano è dinamico e plastico, esito di un continuo in cui si perde la distinzione fra soggetto e oggetto.
Nel mezzo c'è l'esperienza vissuta, la coscienza incarnata.
Una piega è come un'abitudine.

#PiegheSciolte #CuraDiSè #EmbodiedCognition #EpimeleiaHeautou #SouciDeSoi #CuidadoDeSí

Human beings perceive themselves as fixed and armonious creatures, instead it's nature Is instabile and plastic, the result of an endless adaptation process, in which we loose the distinction between subject and object. In the meanwhile what remains is the flow of experience, the embodied cognition.

Handys befriedigen unser Bedürfnis, etwas mit den Händen zu machen

https://weltenkreuzer.de/handys-befriedigen-unser-beduerfnis-etwas-mit-den-haenden-zu-machen/

Having just undergone foot #surgery, I'd say yes -

Nike Says Its New Shoes Can Alter Your Mind. A Neuroscientist Weighs in. https://www.sciencealert.com/nike-says-its-new-shoes-can-alter-your-mind-a-neuroscientist-weighs-in

#bunions #embodiedcognition #somatosensorycortex #proprioception #cognitiveload

## Embodied Cognition
**Subtitle:** The brain doesn’t think alone.

Thought is movement.
A tense jaw narrows perception; a slow breath widens it.
Our nervous systems write memory in muscle and rhythm,
long before language files the report.

To feel again is to know again.
Accessibility isn’t accommodation—it’s architecture.
Feeling is data.

Full essay → https://megan.madamgreen.xyz/embodied-cognition

#CognitiveCulture #EmbodiedCognition #Accessibility #MeganWrites

🚨 Just published in AI Advances
No Storm in the Simulation, No Ghost in the Machine
Why real consciousness can’t be uploaded, simulated, or scaled into existence.
Embodied cognition, analog dynamics, morphological computation.

https://ai.gopubby.com/no-storm-in-the-simulation-no-ghost-in-the-machine-318e250c22b2a

#AI #Consciousness #EmbodiedCognition #LLM #AGI #Neurotech #Memristors