Lecture 2: Paradigms of Cognitive Science - David Vernon

Emergent Approaches
• Cognition is the process whereby an autonomous system
becomes viable and effective in its environment
• It does so through a process of self-organization
– System is continually re-constituting itself
– In real-time
– To maintain it operational identity
– Through moderation of mutual system-environment interaction and
co-determination
Maturana & Varela 87
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