Presentation time:
40 min
Discussion time:
5 min
Lead author:
Milena Sotirova-Kohli (CGJIZ)
The last decades mark great advances in the understanding of the impact of embodied experience on the development of cognition, emotion, memory and consciousness. On the one hand research in the field of embodied cognitive science provides more evidence of the non-linear, emergent nature of consciousness as a result of the interaction between an embodied agent with her environment, the dynamic processes behind cognition, memory and action and the non-linear nature of psychic processes. These findings lead to a shift in psychology and our understanding of mental processes. On the other hand, there is a move away from the materialistic and reductionistic interpretation of the correlations between neuronal, physiological activity and mental phenomena. This is marked by the emergence of an alternative, compensatory movement in the world of psychology that attempts at investigating the role of the “primodial mind” as an objective reality.
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