Embodied Cognition Karl Friston

One of my lecturers mentioned embodied cognition which lead me to this. Absolutely beautiful science and philosophy.

Wow Karl, you just explained material worth 10 books in such a compelling, comprehensive, and cogent way. Thanks a ton. I was looking for something like this as a researcher in problem solving and situated cognition.

What a great illustration navigating through multiple-complex ideas with incredible agility and eloquence. Please we want more of him.

Straight to the point with layman terms and I love it... listening to other lecturers using big grammar I couldn't understand

simply wonderful...

What a magnificent educator. Thank you for making me feel smart, Karl.

Even with secretion, there is movement. It is internal and silent so we perceive secretion as a lack of motion. So embodiment drives all our actions including secretion.

Powwwww ... maybe for my whole life I've been searching for this ..

4:35 philosophy from people like Gibson in 4:39 the 20th century who suggested that the 4:43 the way that we perceive things is only 4:46 in the service of how we can act upon 4:51 them so something that can be seen is 4:55 only seen in virtue of how it can be 5:01 manipulated so I see an apple what I 5:03 actually see is the opportunities 5:06 afforded by that Apple for grasping for 5:10 acting upon so every perceptual 5:13 capability is grounded in a fundamental 5:17 way by the opportunities for action that 5:21 that percept affords so we only see 5:24 through the eyes of our muscles in terms 5:26 of what it means for our behavior and he 5:29 called that affordance

Now this is sound productive thinking. To me it sounds like, “why are our thoughts making ourselves ill”.

We are a part of our environment observing itself.

"The radical version of embodied cognition: if the body is sufficiently tuned to the environment, you don't even need cognition." 4:09

A world of love and respect from China

So wonderfully explained! I wish all of my education was so smoothly understood!

This reminds me strongly of the Mahasatipitthanna sutra A sentence that has stayed with me "There is body only". I guess that would fall under the category of radical inactivism. I would like to see Dr. Friston read and comment on that sutra. It's online of course. What is a thought and how is it triggered. Personally I think a thought is hearing about something the body already knows.

Would this explain the function of hand/body movements during conversation? What we call 'body language'. I've always been fascinated by these: why do we even have them? Do these movements serve the speaker only, or are they clues used by listeners too?

Standard models of cognition posit information manipulation leads to consciousness, but whereas information isn't a non-abstract fundamental of nature, momentum is (yes, really, momentum is not emergent/abstract). Without momentum, i.e. moving, could we be conscious? I bet: no.

Does this have any connection to Marshal Machluan’s “the Medium is the message”?

@9:30 , the structure can be completely transposed. Feels like i ve been watching DI caprio movie: Shutter island / Inception

Why is secretion not included as an action of the body with much implication?