Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition
The Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition
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Many biological agents are characterized by consciousness both as a capacity to feel as a style of cognitive access to integrated information. It is plausible to assume that some essential feature of cognition has not yet been addressed although it is implemented in many biological agents. Among the aspects of biological cognition underrepresented in the literature on cognitive agents it is worth to mention the double layered fringe-nucleus model proposed by William James. This model outlines the relation between what is already in the focus of attention and what is not. In the recent past it has already been suggested to use James's fringe as a viable model for cognition particularly by Bruce Mangan. Here, the main idea is that the fringe-nucleus model is not limited to the cognitive modeling but rather it shapes the relation between the conscious mind and the environment. The fringe zone could model the transition area between what is integrated inside the cognitive domain and the environment. In this paper, we explore the link between the fringe-nucleus model and an externalist, situated and embodied framework whereby the vehicles of cognition are spread so to comprehend the external world.