Methods: This essay reviews the historical development of the IASP definition, and the
commentaries and suggested modifications to it over almost 40 years. Common factors of …

One of the most salient features of life is its capacity to handle novelty and namely to thrive
and adapt to new circumstances and changes in both the environment and internal …

Embodied cognition is a hot topic in both cognitive science and AI, despite the fact that there
still is relatively little consensus regarding what exactly constitutes 'embodiment'. While most …

One of the most useful metaphors for driving scientific and engineering progress has been
that of the “machine.” Much controversy exists about the applicability of this concept in the …

From an embodied and enactive point of view, the mind–body problem has been
reformulated as the relation between the lived or subject body on the one hand and the …

Many studies on memory emphasize the material substrate and mechanisms by which data
can be stored and reliably read out. Here, I focus on complementary aspects: the need for …

The trend in industrial/service robotics is to develop robots that can cooperate with people,
interacting with them in an autonomous, safe and purposive way. These are the fundamental …

CONTEXT Precision farming (PF) is a term that is now widespread throughout agricultural
systems worldwide. It is studied in many ways, from its strictly technical connotation of a farm …

Research has revealed how inherent self-organizing tendencies in athletes and sports
teams can be exploited to facilitate emergence of dynamical patterns in synergy formation in …

An enactive approach to music education is explored through the lens of critical ontology.
Assumptions central to Western academic music culture are critically discussed; and the …