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Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances

Bruineberg, Jelle ; Rietveld, Erik

Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014-08, Vol.8, p.599-599 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Switzerland: Frontiers Research Foundation

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  • Título:
    Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances
  • Autor: Bruineberg, Jelle ; Rietveld, Erik
  • Assuntos: affordances ; Animal cognition ; Brain architecture ; Cognitive ability ; Consciousness ; Deep brain stimulation ; Dynamical systems ; Free energy ; Free Energy Principle ; Merleau-Ponty ; Metastability ; Nervous system ; Neurodynamics ; Neuroscience ; Neurosciences ; Niches ; Phenomenology ; Philosophy ; Science ; self-organization ; System theory
  • É parte de: Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2014-08, Vol.8, p.599-599
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    Reviewed by: Robert A. Barton, University of Durham, UK; Eric Phillip Charles, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
    This article was submitted to the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
    Edited by: Louise Barrett, University of Lethbridge, Canada
  • Descrição: In this paper, we set out to develop a theoretical and conceptual framework for the new field of Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience. This framework should be able to integrate insights from several relevant disciplines: theory on embodied cognition, ecological psychology, phenomenology, dynamical systems theory, and neurodynamics. We suggest that the main task of Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience is to investigate the phenomenon of skilled intentionality from the perspective of the self-organization of the brain-body-environment system, while doing justice to the phenomenology of skilled action. In previous work, we have characterized skilled intentionality as the organism's tendency toward an optimal grip on multiple relevant affordances simultaneously. Affordances are possibilities for action provided by the environment. In the first part of this paper, we introduce the notion of skilled intentionality and the phenomenon of responsiveness to a field of relevant affordances. Second, we use Friston's work on neurodynamics, but embed a very minimal version of his Free Energy Principle in the ecological niche of the animal. Thus amended, this principle is helpful for understanding the embeddedness of neurodynamics within the dynamics of the system "brain-body-landscape of affordances." Next, we show how we can use this adjusted principle to understand the neurodynamics of selective openness to the environment: interacting action-readiness patterns at multiple timescales contribute to the organism's selective openness to relevant affordances. In the final part of the paper, we emphasize the important role of metastable dynamics in both the brain and the brain-body-environment system for adequate affordance-responsiveness. We exemplify our integrative approach by presenting research on the impact of Deep Brain Stimulation on affordance responsiveness of OCD patients.
  • Editor: Switzerland: Frontiers Research Foundation
  • Idioma: Inglês
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