How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

For millennia people have wondered what makes the living different from the non-living.
Beginning in the mid-1980s, artificial life has studied living systems using a synthetic …

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

Current theories of social cognition are mainly based on a representationalist view.
Moreover, they focus on a rather sophisticated and limited aspect of understanding others, ie …

Recent embodied approaches in cognitive sciences emphasize the constitutive roles of
bodies and environment in driving cognitive processes. Cognition is thus seen as a …

There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines
which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the …

This article addresses the integration problem in psychiatry: the explanatory problem of
integrating such heterogeneous factors as cause or contribute to the problems at hand …

The enactive approach to cognition distinctively emphasizes autonomy, adaptivity, agency,
meaning, experience, and interaction. Taken together, these principles can provide the new …

This paper takes a new look at an old question: what is the human self? It offers a proposal
for theorizing the self from an enactive perspective as an autonomous system that is …

Humans' interactions with each other or with socially competent machines exhibit lawful
coordination patterns at multiple levels of description. According to Coordination Dynamics …