Szymon Kaliski

Situated Cognition

Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts.

This perspective rejects mind–body dualism (...)

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_cognition ↗

• knowledge is bound to social/cultural/physical contexts
• might be connected to Extended Phenotypes - spiders "thinking" with spider webs
• loosely connected to Cognition "Shape"
• connection to Mind-Body Dualism seems important - assuming thinking happens in physical world leads us to believe that thinking doesn't happen in some other non-physical realm
• connected to Embodied Cognition, Understanding Through Building

Backlinks

1. 2022-02-14Thinking About Thinking Requires Something to Think About¹
2. 2022-01-18Epistemic Actions¹
3. 2021-03-19Embodied Cognition²
4. 2021-02-16Extended Mind¹
5. 2020-12-13Learning¹