#1164 Rafael Núñez: Embodied Cognition, Time, Space, and Mathematics

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Rafael Nunez. He is a professor of cognitive science at University of California, San Diego. He investigates cognition from the perspective of the embodied mind, and today we're going to talk about embodied cognition, time and space, and numerical cognition and mathematics.

So Dr. Nunez, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to everyone. Thank you. Thanks for the invitation.

So let me start by asking you then, what is embodied cognition and in what ways does it differ from other approaches in the cognitive sciences? Well, embodied cognition is a is a large umbrella term that captures, I would say, many different approaches. They're not homogeneous, I would say, but they all share like some kind of interest in that came out more or late more or less in the 1980s, 1990s, as a way of answering to a dissatisfaction which was like a a purely digital sort of information processing view of the mind and incorporating features that concern the body, the anatomy, anchored in the physiological constraints of our, not just our human, but animality in general.

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