Abstract
Embodied Cognition and Information
Highlights
More recent developments in information theory have focused on semantic information and its essentially human construction and use
We have two views of information that both arise from a pragmatic starting point: the first observes that information is physically embodied; the second that, at some point, information is defined and construed by people
If we begin with Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment in phenomenology [5], we must accept that the simple model of ‘one thing leading to another’ cannot be used in construction of arguments: embodiment supposes that dualities such as perception and thought are embodied and happen ‘together’. This removal of duality has an immediate consequence for the epistemology of semantic information theory but it offers an interesting speculation environment within which we might pose further questions
Summary
This paper explores the nature of information by bringing together two questions posed by Luciano Floridi in his ‘Open problems’ paper [1]. For Mingers, a similar conclusion is reached by applying a phenomenological approach to Artificial Intelligence: that a disembodied intelligence is a contradiction In both cases, the mind and body are one – it is not possible to escape acknowledging that thoughts arise from a physical (cognitive) process. We have two views of information that both arise from a pragmatic starting point: the first observes that information is physically embodied; the second that, at some point, information is defined and construed by people (a necessary part of both the ontology and epistemology) Both views have another feature that will be used as the focus of this paper: they both make use of embodiment in some way: embodying information or cognition in the physical world.
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