Embodied Cognition Karl Friston

[dhammaboy]

I'm doing a PhD in Enactivsim aka Embodied Cognition & Friston does a supurb job here of explaining the tradition, it's different positions & the consequences of the theory for real-world application! 👌
I also love how the video creator has included slides of the key concepts discussed in the video - I recommend taking a lot at those too!

[DanialDawson]

One of my lecturers mentioned embodied cognition which lead me to this. Absolutely beautiful science and philosophy.

[lotusleo]

Wow Karl, you just explained material worth 10 books in such a compelling, comprehensive, and cogent way. Thanks a ton. I was looking for something like this as a researcher in problem solving and situated cognition.

[aalromihi]

What a great illustration navigating through multiple-complex ideas with incredible agility and eloquence.
Please we want more of him.

[julietteanya]

Straight to the point with layman terms and I love it... listening to other lecturers using big grammar I couldn't understand

[cmbr]

Now this is sound productive thinking. To me it sounds like, “why are our thoughts making ourselves ill”.

[saydiekay]

Karl Friston is a just so awe inspiring! His enthusiasm is 🎉🎉

[JTedam]

Even with secretion, there is movement. It is internal and silent so we perceive secretion as a lack of motion. So embodiment drives all our actions including secretion.

[davidhubbardmd]

"The radical version of embodied cognition: if the body is sufficiently tuned to the environment, you don't even need cognition." 4:09

[razzaxxe]

What a magnificent educator. Thank you for making me feel smart, Karl.

[timkbirchico]

We are a part of our environment observing itself.

[CONNELL]

Would this explain the function of hand/body movements during conversation? What we call 'body language'. I've always been fascinated by these: why do we even have them? Do these movements serve the speaker only, or are they clues used by listeners too?

[margrietoregan]

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philosophy from people like Gibson in
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the 20th century who suggested that the
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the way that we perceive things is only
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in the service of how we can act upon
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them so something that can be seen is
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only seen in virtue of how it can be
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manipulated so I see an apple what I
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actually see is the opportunities
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afforded by that Apple for grasping for
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acting upon so every perceptual
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capability is grounded in a fundamental
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way by the opportunities for action that
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that percept affords so we only see
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through the eyes of our muscles in terms
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of what it means for our behavior and he
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called that affordance

[ziedmeddebhamrouni]

... maybe for my whole life I've been searching for this ..

[yaojianleung]

A world of love and respect from China

[ekszentrik]

Standard models of cognition posit information manipulation leads to consciousness, but whereas information isn't a non-abstract fundamental of nature, momentum is (yes, really, momentum is not emergent/abstract). Without momentum, i.e. moving, could we be conscious? I bet: no.

[hexachloraphene]

This reminds me strongly of the Mahasatipitthanna sutra A sentence that has stayed with me "There is body only". I guess that would fall under the category of radical inactivism. I would like to see Dr. Friston read and comment on that sutra. It's online of course. What is a thought and how is it triggered. Personally I think a thought is hearing about something the body already knows.

[MindofAnnoyance]

So wonderfully explained! I wish all of my education was so smoothly understood!

[Marty]

Does this have any connection to Marshal Machluan’s “the Medium is the message”?

[anywallsocket]

he's about on par with D. Hofstadter, in terms of generalized brilliance connecting physics with psychology, neurology, and philosophy.