<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="ContentH1" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); text-align: center;">GENERAL INFORMATION</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><span class="ContentH2" style="font-size: 18px;">Interactivist Summer Institute 2017</span><br class="">July 21 - 24, 2017<br class="">Ohrid, Macedonia</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Interactivist Summer Institute is dedicated to exploring the frontiers of understanding of life, mind, and cognition. There is a growing recognition - across many disciplines - that phenomena of life and mind, including cognition and representation, are emergents of far-from-equilibrium, interactive, autonomous systems. In such a view, mind and biology, mind and agent, are re-united. The classical treatment of cognition and representation within a formalist framework of encodingist assumptions is increasingly recognized as a fruitless maze of blind alleys. From neurobiology to robotics, from cognitive science to philosophy of mind and language, dynamic and interactive alternatives are being explored. Dynamic systems approaches, enactivist and autonomous agent research join in the effort.</p><p style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The interactivist model offers a theoretical approach to matters of life and mind, ranging from evolutionary- and neuro-biology (including the emergence of biological function) through representation, perception, motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, language, action theory, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology, and ethics. This work has developed interfaces with studies of central nervous system functioning, the ontology of process, autonomous agents, philosophy of science, and all areas of psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science that address the person.</p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/index.html" class="">http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/index.html</a><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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