Concepto del acercamiento 4E a la Cognición. Hace referencia a que el cerebro es condición necesaria, pero no suficiente, para pensar, ya que se requiere de un cuerpo completo para hacerlo.
Es una idea que ha sido tomada en consideración por los ingenieros que trabajan en la programación y/o entrenamiento de robots autónomos, ya que al parecer no hay manera de hacerlo de manera exitosa sin proveerlos de loops de feedback sensori basados en una interacción real con el ambiente a partir de sus cuerpos.
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Enlace al originalIn knitting class, as I was struggling to make loops with two pointy wooden sticks, the teacher peered over my shoulder and said: “It’s harder if you think about it too much.” By which she meant: you only learn to knit by letting your fingers figure it out. The embodied cognition researcher and ceramics artist Camilla Groth calls this ‘making sense through the hands.’ Making, for Groth, is ‘a form of thinking through actions, tools, things, and materials.’¹ Lambros Malafouris, an archeologist who studies how materials affect the mind, has a sillier name for this — he calls it ‘thinging’:
“Cognition and emotion are not realized in the brain but with a brain; that is, to think and to feel, we need more than a brain. Brain regions work in concert, but they are never alone; rather, they are always parts of broader systems extending beyond skin and skull.”