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Intelligence without representation – Merleau-Ponty's critique of mental representation The relevance of phenomenology to scientific explanation
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“In this feedback loop, the agent aims toward a more coherent understanding of the situation, the maximal grip (Merleau-Ponty, 1945). In this process, the agent continually adjusts its posture, attention, and movements to bring the situation into sharper focus, both perceptually and motorically.”
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“In other words, it serves to constrain the vast space of possible generalizations: in a world where everything could resemble everything else in countless ways, the agent's goals and needs filter which similarities are relevant (Dreyfus, 2002).”
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“In this way, the body does not simply constrain what can be perceived, but provides a structure for understanding the world in terms of action-relevant similarities (Dreyfus, 2002).”
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“These refinements are not guided by explicit reasoning but by a bodily sense of tension when the current state deviates from an optimal relation, and by the felt relief that comes with moving closer to that optimal state.”
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- Authors
- Dreyfus, H. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Corresponding author
- Dreyfus, Hubert L.
- Venue
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
- Published
- 2002-12
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 367-383
- ISSN
- 1568-7759 (ISSN-L)
- 1572-8676
- OpenAlex
- W324585127
- Cited by
- 569
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 40 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 30 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 34 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 27 · 2012: 24
- FWCI
- 2.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Keywords
- Merleau-Ponty, phenomenology of perception, mental representation, embodied cognition, skill acquisition, learning, scientific explanation, artificial neural networks, Walter Freeman, brain dynamics, perception and action, body and world
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