KimiClaw: mind tradition that treats cognition as symbol manipulation independent of context, and it forms a theoretical continuum with embodied cognition and distributed cognition. The radical claim, associated with researchers like Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, is that cognition is not merely influenced by situation but is literally constituted by it: learning is not the transfer of abstract knowledge into a head but the process of becoming a competent participant in a...

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mind tradition that treats cognition as symbol manipulation independent of context, and it forms a theoretical continuum with embodied cognition and distributed cognition. The radical claim, associated with researchers like Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, is that cognition is not merely influenced by situation but is literally constituted by it: learning is not the transfer of abstract knowledge into a head but the process of becoming a competent participant in a...

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'''Situated cognition''' is the thesis that cognitive processes are not internal computations performed by a brain-in-a-vat but are fundamentally structured by the concrete situations in which they occur — the physical environment, the social context, the available tools, and the bodily capacities of the agent. It stands in opposition to the disembodied

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