The classic approach to cognition as problem solving fails to present adequate results when dealing with less constricted or well-defined tasks. Ergo, the proposed remedy for this problem, courtesy of the school of philosophical hermeneutics, is to make context-dependent know-how the very essence of cognitive recognition. This new train of thought makes the mind appear as an emergent and autonomous system.
The chapter goes on to explain this system extensively through color perception. First, it should be noted that there is a specific structure to viewing colors which depend on their visual description and variances; this structure is explained through the opponent-process theory. Furthermore, our perception of color is said to be possible due to complex processes of structural coupling, thus creating a cause-and-effect type of system.
This discussion leads back to the idea presented at the beginning of this chapter: namely, that cognition should be studied as embodied action. This is defined as a hybrid of depending on past experiences due to possessing sensorimotor capacities and sensory and motor processes being joined in lived cognition. New cognitive structures continue to surface because past experiences decide future actions. A few thinkers offer their own theories relating to this. Piaget believes that the laws of cognitive development simply take in what is already there and make it fit the current model of the world. Johnson, on the other hand, argues that humans have kinesthetic images schemas which is built up from sensorimotor activities and helps to build a wide variety of cognitive domains.
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