This article develops a framework for analysing how digital software and models become mediums for creative imagination in architectural design. To understand the hermeneutics of these relationships, ...we develop key concepts from Material Engagement Theory (MET) and Postphenomenology (PP). To push these frameworks into the realm of digital design, we develop the concept of Digital Materiality. Digital Materiality describes the way successive layers of mathematics, code, and software come to mediate enactive perception, and the possibilities of creative material engagement actualised in work with software. Just as molecular materials come to transform action with material objects, so digital materiality comes to enable and transform creative practices with computers. Digital architectural design form a new space for ongoing enactive discovery and creativity through manipulation of digital models and their underlying software environments. By shifting relationships within their digital models, architects can direct their attention, intention, and imagination towards widely different aspects of the model. Here, creative imagination becomes a fundamentally situated activity where mind emerges through dynamic interaction between a variety of embodied, material, and cultural domains.
4E cognition in the Lower Palaeolithic Wynn, Thomas; Overmann, Karenleigh A; Malafouris, Lambros
Adaptive behavior,
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This essay introduces a special issue focused on 4E cognition (cognition as embodied, embedded, enactive, and extended) in the Lower Palaeolithic. In it, we review the typological and ...representational cognitive approaches that have dominated the past 50 years of paleoanthropology. These have assumed that all representations and computations take place only inside the head, which implies that the archaeological record can only be an “external” product or the behavioral trace of “internal” representational and computational processes. In comparison, the 4E approach helps us to overcome this dualist representational logic, allowing us to engage directly with the archaeological record as an integral part of the thinking process, and thus ground a more parsimonious cognitive archaeology. It also treats stone tools, the primary vestiges of hominin thinking, as active participants in mental life. The 4E approach offers a better grounding for understanding hominin technical expertise, a crucially important component of hominin cognitive evolution.
Introduction. The sapient mind: archaeology meets neuroscience Renfrew, Colin; Frith, Chris; Malafouris, Lambros
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences,
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Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging is being proposed as a method designed to facilitate the heightened sensitivity needed for the anthropological study of the relationship between making and thinking, ...during the creative engagement with form-generating materials. Technically, this objective is achieved through the juxtaposition of perspectival view points on the process of making. We follow the ways of the hand using a combination of multimodal visual captures (i.e., photography, video, observational drawing and mobile eye-tracking). Each of these multimodal visual captures affords a specific spatio-temporal perspective from which to identify and observe morphogenetic events of interest (e.g. creative gestures and modes of enactive signification). The basic idea is that the juxtaposition of different media affects how we observe and what can be observed by enabling the discovery of connections and material relations that are often obscured when seen from a single perspectival point.
Est-il vraiment devenu possible aujourd’hui d’étayer l’analogie entre des mécanismes (électroniques ou algorithmiques) et les attributs de l’intelligence, de l’apprentissage ou de la pensée ? Depuis ...l’apparition de l’informatique dans les années 1950, jusqu’aux dispositifs numériques qui ont aujourd’hui pénétré toutes les sphères de l’existence (ordinateurs personnels, messageries électroniques, smartphones, applications, réseaux sociaux, objets connectés, intelligences artificielles génératives, etc.), les développements technologiques n’ont cessé de s’accélérer au cours des dernières années. Ces transformations techniques se sont accompagnées de nombreux discours au sujet de l’« intelligence artificielle », des « machines pensantes » ou de « l’apprentissage automatique », qui, tout aussi divers soient-ils, ont pour point commun de reposer sur une analogie entre l’humain ou l’esprit d’une part, et l’artefact ou la machine de l’autre. Lire la suite…
In this paper we tentatively propose that one of the feral cognitive bases for modern symbolic thinking may be numerosity, that is, the ability to appreciate and understand numbers. We proffer that ...numerosity appears to be an inherently abstractive process, which is supported by numerous human infant and monkey studies. We also review studies that demonstrate that the neurological substrate for numerosity is primarily the intraparietal sulcus of the parietal lobes, the angular and supramarginal gyri in the inferior parietal lobes, and areas of the prefrontal cortex. We also speculate that the lower level of abstraction involved in numerosity may serve as a basis for higher-level symbolic thinking, such as number and letter symbolism and sequencing. We further speculate that these two levels of abstraction may give rise to highly sophisticated characteristics of modern human language, such as analogizing and metaphorizing.
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