Whence the autonomy?: A response to Harnad and Dror

Kravchenko, Alexander V.

doi:10.1075/pc.15.3.12kra

Article published In: Mechanicism and Autonomy: What Can Robotics Teach Us About Human Cognition and Action?
Edited by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez, Willem F.G. Haselager and Itiel E. Dror
[Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3] 2007
► pp. 587–597

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Whence the autonomy?

A response to Harnad and Dror

Alexander V. Kravchenko | Baikal National University of Economics and Law (Irkutsk)

Published online: 13 December 2007

https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.15.3.12kra

The internalist (computational) account of cognition is questioned and the explanatory power of the biology of cognition in resolving epistemological issues is emphasized. It is argued that, far from being an autonomous activity within the brains of cognizers which generates input/output capacity and can be auditioned by the Turing Test, cognition is a function of living systems as unities of interactions that exist in an environment in structural coupling. Therefore, it is distributed.

Keywords: autonomy, behavior, distributed cognition, environment, structural coupling

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