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"understanding is a form of simulation"
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Concepts are neural activation patterns that can either be "turned on" by some actual perceptual or motoric event in our bodies, or else activated when we merely think about something, without actually perceiving it or performing a specific action.
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concepts are discrete, percepts are continuous. concepts are abstracts in the way that they take out a discrete aspect of the continuous situation. "out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers', 'winters'
(James 1890/1950. Principles of Psychology)
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According to Damasio, emotions - or emotional responses - are processes arising from the perception of ongoing changes within an organism that require some transofmring activity either to maintain the equilibirum or shift to a new state of balance. (Damasio)
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environmental opportunities - the objects are not represented, rather we perceive affordances that allow us to interact with them in a certain way.
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