Creating nothing from something - how cognition remains in the world

Beskrivelse

5E approaches have forcefully challenged the idea that cognition (only) takes place in the head; albeit in different ways (Kersten, Dewhurst & Deane, 2017). For instance, the enactive approach hypothesises that not only does cognition not take place in the head, it cannot be localized, (Varela, Thompson & Rosch, 1991) i.e. ascribed to a singular discrete entity in time-space, but is an emergent result of dynamic interactions within spatiotemporal contexts. Nonetheless, the idea is alive and well in both lay and scientific theories. The computational theory of mind claims that “thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures” (Thagard, 2023,). This presentation looks at the philosophical preoccupation with placing or locating phenomena as a proxy for a particular type of ontogenesis in a Simondonian sense (Simondon, 2020), i.e. a creative principle of becoming that accounts for how things come to be (are individualized). It is posited that the question of how something comes into being is confused with and answered through the question of where something takes place. The presentation takes its cue from an observation made by Gregory Bateson that “difference is a nonsubstantial phenomenon not located in space or time” (Bateson, 1979, p. 92). Through an interpretation of this claim the notion of boundaries or form is replaced by that of information (Illiadis, 2013; Simondon, 2020) in order to establish a division of labour between ontology, epistemology and communication in terms of their respective ontogenies.

Periode	9 jun. 2026
Begivenhedstitel	Second International Conference on Embodied Education
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Emdrup, DanmarkVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International