Recycling the concept of reuse: Why interaction theory is more ecologically friendly than the simulation theory of social cognition.
Prof Shaun Gallagher (Florida State)

March 4, 2015, 9:00am - 11:00am
Philosophy & Bioethics Departments, Monash University

E561, 5th Floor, Menzies Building (20 Chancellor's Walk)
Monash University
Clayton 3800
Australia

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Abstract: Simulation theorists, like Gallese and Goldman, appeal to the notion of neural reuse or recycling (Dehaene 2005; Anderson 2010).  Although the notion of neural reuse provides a good evolutionary story about brain organization, and specifically about mirror neurons, it doesn't tell us anything about how simulation works, or why the simulationist interpretation of mirror neuron processes is correct.  I argue that the neural reuse hypothesis actually supports an enactivist interpretation of mirror neuron processes in the context of social cognition .

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