Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA ; Department of Psychology, Center for Cognition, Action, and Perception, University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Oct 7;8:796. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00796. eCollection 2014.
It is becoming ever more accepted that investigations of mind span the brain, body, and environment. To broaden the scope of what is relevant in such investigations is to increase the amount of data scientists must reckon with. Thus, a major challenge facing scientists who study the mind is how to make big data intelligible both within and between fields. One way to face this challenge is to structure the data within a framework and to make it intelligible by means of a common theory. Radical embodied cognitive neuroscience can function as such a framework, with dynamical systems theory as its methodology, and self-organized criticality as its theory.
越来越多的人认为，对心智的研究跨越了大脑、身体和环境。扩大此类研究的范围就是要增加科学家必须考虑的数据量。因此，研究心智的科学家面临的一个主要挑战是如何使大数据在不同领域内和领域之间都具有可理解性。面对这一挑战的一种方法是在一个框架内对数据进行结构化，并通过一个共同的理论使数据具有可理解性。激进的具身心智科学可以作为这样一个框架，其方法是动力系统理论，其理论是自组织临界性。
