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Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion
For first generation scientists after the cognitive revolution, knowers were in active control over all (stages of) information processing. Then, following a decade of transition shaped by intense controversy, embodied cognition emerged and suggested sources of control other than those implied by me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660850/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114235 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01702 |
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author | Iran-Nejad, Asghar Bordbar, Fareed |
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description | For first generation scientists after the cognitive revolution, knowers were in active control over all (stages of) information processing. Then, following a decade of transition shaped by intense controversy, embodied cognition emerged and suggested sources of control other than those implied by metaphysical information processing. With a thematic focus on embodiment science and an eye toward systematic consensus in systemic cohesion, the present study explores the roles of biofunctional and conceptual control processes in the wholetheme spiral of biofunctional understanding (see Iran-Nejad and Irannejad, 2017b, Figure 1). According to this spiral, each of the two kinds of understanding has its own unique set of knower control processes. For conceptual understanding (CU), knowers have deliberate attention-allocation control over their first-person “knowthat” and “knowhow” content combined as mutually coherent corequisites. For biofunctional understanding (BU), knowers have attention-allocation control only over their knowthat content but knowhow control content is ordinarily conspicuously absent. To test the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between CU and BU, participants in two experiments read identical-format statements for internal consistency, as response time was recorded. The results of Experiment 1 supported the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between the two types of control processes; and Experiment 2 confirmed the results of Experiment 1. These findings are discussed in terms of the predicted differences between BU and CU control processes, their roles in regulating the physically unobservable flow of systemic cohesion in the wholetheme spiral, and a proposal for systematic consensus in systemic cohesion to serve as the second guiding principle in biofunctional embodiment science next to physical science’s first guiding principle of systematic observation. |
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spelling | pubmed-56608502017-11-07 Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion Iran-Nejad, Asghar Bordbar, Fareed Front Psychol Psychology For first generation scientists after the cognitive revolution, knowers were in active control over all (stages of) information processing. Then, following a decade of transition shaped by intense controversy, embodied cognition emerged and suggested sources of control other than those implied by metaphysical information processing. With a thematic focus on embodiment science and an eye toward systematic consensus in systemic cohesion, the present study explores the roles of biofunctional and conceptual control processes in the wholetheme spiral of biofunctional understanding (see Iran-Nejad and Irannejad, 2017b, Figure 1). According to this spiral, each of the two kinds of understanding has its own unique set of knower control processes. For conceptual understanding (CU), knowers have deliberate attention-allocation control over their first-person “knowthat” and “knowhow” content combined as mutually coherent corequisites. For biofunctional understanding (BU), knowers have attention-allocation control only over their knowthat content but knowhow control content is ordinarily conspicuously absent. To test the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between CU and BU, participants in two experiments read identical-format statements for internal consistency, as response time was recorded. The results of Experiment 1 supported the hypothesis of differences in the manner of control between the two types of control processes; and Experiment 2 confirmed the results of Experiment 1. These findings are discussed in terms of the predicted differences between BU and CU control processes, their roles in regulating the physically unobservable flow of systemic cohesion in the wholetheme spiral, and a proposal for systematic consensus in systemic cohesion to serve as the second guiding principle in biofunctional embodiment science next to physical science’s first guiding principle of systematic observation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5660850/ /pubmed/29114235 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01702 Text en Copyright © 2017 Iran-Nejad and Bordbar. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Iran-Nejad, Asghar Bordbar, Fareed Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title | Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title_full | Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title_fullStr | Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title_full_unstemmed | Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title_short | Biofunctional Understanding and Conceptual Control: Searching for Systematic Consensus in Systemic Cohesion |
title_sort | biofunctional understanding and conceptual control: searching for systematic consensus in systemic cohesion |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5660850/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29114235 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01702 |
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