Reblogging this because we're still trying to understand bits of On the Origin of Objects in the comments... please come and join in if you actually understand this book!https://drossbucket.wordpress.com/2019/10/24/the-middle-distance/ …
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Um, I’m having trouble with this because I’m not sure where to start. This is slightly scary because The Eggplant is supposed to cover a lot of the same material (much more briefly) and if BCS can’t explain it for you in a book probably I can’t explain it in a few pages :(
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Part of the problem is that BCS’s presentation is situated within a particular discourse (“The Palo Alto Synthesis”) that is now a lost world. Influential at the time but now forgotten.
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I also come out of that world, and I may not recognize the extent to which I take for granted its problematics—that is, what it considers important questions to ask. Those questions were mainly overlooked before the Synthesis, and have been mainly overlooked since.
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The Synthesis was pointing to the whole cognitivist/analytic tradition and saying “look, the emperor has no clothes,” and everyone before and since has deliberately chosen not to notice this.
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I have recently finished "Being there" by Andy Clark. Would you say he and "Embodied cognition" folks not notice what you consider emperor's nudity?
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I haven’t read that, so I can’t be specific. Generally the “embodied” movement has got one important part of the story and not others. BCS’s book points to this specifically. Reference can’t be a matter just of perception or other causal coupling, because we can continue to >
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refer to a thing after it has flown off to Ouagadougou.
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