Abstract
For first generation scientists after the cognitive revolution, knowers were in active control over all (stages of) information processing. Then, following a decade of transition shaped by intense controversy, embodied cognition emerged and suggested sources of control other than those implied by metaphysical information processing. With a thematic focus on embodiment science and an eye toward systematic consensus in systemic cohesion, the present study explores the roles of biofunctional and conceptual control processes in the wholetheme spiral of biofunctional understanding (see Iran-Nejad and Irannejad, 2017b, Figure 1). According to this spiral, each of the two kinds of understanding has its own unique set of knower control processes. For conceptual understanding (CU), knowers have deliberate attention-allocation control over their first-person “knowthat” and “knowhow” content combined as mutually coherent corequisites. For biofunctional understanding (BU), knowers have attention-allocation control only over their knowthat content but knowhow control content is ordinarily conspicuously absent. To test the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between CU and BU, participants in two experiments read identical-format statements for internal consistency, as response time was recorded. The results of Experiment 1 supported the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between the two types of control processes; and Experiment 2 confirmed the results of Experiment 1. These findings are discussed in terms of the predicted differences between BU and CU control processes, their roles in regulating the physically unobservable flow of systemic cohesion in the wholetheme spiral, and a proposal for systematic consensus in systemic cohesion to serve as the second guiding principle in biofunctional embodiment science next to physical science’s first guiding principle of systematic observation.
Highlights
The Myth of the Knowledge Stored in ConnectionsIn a panel discussion entitled “The computational conception of mind” with Gilbert Harman, John Haugeland, Jay McClelland, Allen Newell, Dana S
This excerpt is widely circulated in unmistakably similar words throughout the community of the second generation cognitivist, especially, the literature on parallel distributed processing (PDP), a well-known predecessor to embodied cognition
The results of Experiment 1 supported the hypothesis that the knower control processes for conceptual understanding (CU) such as thinking and contemplation are different from those for biofunctional understanding (BU) like realization and revelation
Summary
In a panel discussion entitled “The computational conception of mind” with Gilbert Harman, John Haugeland, Jay McClelland, Allen Newell, Dana S. In the absence of pre-existing frames, it would take a well-built manual camera in the hands of a lifelong photographer with flawless professional artistry to rapidsnap in immediate consecution two pictures of a single scene from two different angles This would not make a perfectly tight metaphor for replicating the manner and nature of biofunctional embodiment of understanding but would be close enough of an approximation to show that no saved prior knowledge would be necessary and any would be in the way. They present themselves to the unwary knower, unbeckoned and in an after-the-fact manner, all with the extraordinary but characteristic click of unmistakably understanding, albeit, at varying degrees of strikingness or surprise (Iran-Nejad, 2000; Prawat, 2000) These processes assume no saved prior or any other kind of knowledge; it is to these processes that, in part, the immediate analogy of the manual camera applies; and it is these processes that are the pure wisdom operators of the physical intellectual capacity of biofunctional understanding. Experiment 1 tests our a priori prediction and Experiment 2 is expected to replicate the results of the first experiment
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