University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
Conscious Cogn. 2020 Mar;79:102897. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.102897. Epub 2020 Feb 13.
Non-representational approaches to cognition have struggled to provide accounts of long-term planning that forgo the use of representations. An explanation comes easier for cognitivist accounts, which hold that we concoct and use contentful mental representations as guides to coordinate a series of actions towards an end state. One non-representational approach, ecological-enactivism, has recently seen several proposals that account for "high-level" or "representation-hungry" capacities, including long-term planning and action coordination. In this paper, we demonstrate the explanatory gap in these accounts that stems from avoiding the incorporation of long-term intentions, as they play an important role both in action coordination and perception on the ecological account. Using recent enactive accounts of language, we argue for a non-representational conception of intentions, their formation, and their role in coordinating pre-reflective action. We provide an account for the coordination of our present actions towards a distant goal, a skill we call distal engagement. Rather than positing intentions as an actual cognitive entity in need of explanation, we argue that we take them up in this way as a practice due to linguistically scaffolded attitudes towards language use.
非代表性认知方法在提供长期规划的解释时，避免使用表示法。认知主义解释较为简单，其认为我们构思并使用有实质内容的心理表示法作为协调一系列行动以达到最终状态的指南。最近，一种非代表性的方法——生态行动主义，提出了一些解释“高级”或“需要表示法”能力的方法，包括长期规划和行动协调。在本文中，我们展示了这些解释中的解释差距，这是由于避免了长期意图的纳入，因为它们在生态解释中的行动协调和感知中都起着重要作用。使用最近的语言生态解释，我们主张将意图视为非代表性概念，以及它们的形成及其在协调前反思行动中的作用。我们提供了一种解释，用于协调我们目前的行动以实现遥远的目标，我们称之为远程参与。我们不是将意图作为需要解释的实际认知实体来假设，而是由于对语言使用的语言结构的态度，我们以这种方式将其作为一种实践来接受。
