Hi TOK List,

  Attached is an upcoming paper in Philosophical Psychology comparing John Staddon's theoretical behavior with the 4e cognition movement. For its place in the establishment, it is a good paper. Feel free to dive in and see the interesting and complex arguments, and try to decide if you are an adaptive behavioral person or a 4e cognition person. (Note, if you are an animal behavioral scientist, you will likely lean toward to former, if you are a human psychologist, you will likely lean toward the latter)

Or, another option is to simply recognize that this debate is an archaic consequence of the matter/mind Enlightenment Gap. Once you do that, you can simply acknowledge that the problem this paper is wrestling with is solved by the Unified Framework and understanding the two sides of Mind1 in this diagram:
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In short, rather than taking a laborious deep dive into the old philosophical psychology paradigm wars between the mentalists and behaviorists, what we need is a

A (4e) neurocognitive functional analysis of (the adaptive dynamics of) overt mental behavior.

This is why we need an Enlightenment 2.0 movement in both philosophy and psychology, so we can stop wasting so much intellectual energy trying to make sense of out the relationship between matter and mind using the old and inadequate ways of understanding the world and our place in it. The time is now for a fundamental reboot in our sense making systems.

Best,
Gregg

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