Host: The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Name : The 37th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Number : 37
Location : [in Japanese]
Date : June 06, 2023 - June 09, 2023
n recent years, cognitive science has focused on the embodied nature of consciousness and its interaction with the environment. Francisco Varela referred to this philosophy of cognition as "embodied mind," and emphasized that cognition must be understood in relation to the individual history of the body and its organic environment, as well as the situation in which the organism is acting. If we interpret the embodied mind more broadly, cognition should be seen within the comprehensive environment of the cognitive subject's bodily habits, language use, and ecological environment. In other words, consciousness is a phenomenon that could be understood from the perspective of "co-evolution with civilization." This paper attempts to identify how the mind functions in Japan from Soseki Natsume's works and theories. In Soseki's works, consciousness is a combination of information processing and bodily sensations, which suggests a different way of understanding consciousness from the current cognitive science.
