On the role of AI in the ongoing paradigm shift within the cognitive sciences

  • Authors:
  • Tom Froese

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK

  • Venue:
  • 50 years of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper supports the view that the ongoing shift from orthodox to embodied-embedded cognitive science has been significantly influenced by the experimental results generated by AI research. Recently, there has also been a noticeable shift toward enactivism, a paradigm which radicalizes the embodied-embedded approach by placing autonomous agency and lived subjectivity at the heart of cognitive science. Some first steps toward a clarification of the relationship of AI to this further shift are outlined. It is concluded that the success of enactivism in establishing itself as a mainstream cognitive science research program will depend less on progress made in AI research and more on the development of a phenomenological pragmatics.