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Biological action is situated
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Cognition and language need to be interpreted biologically. The notion of representation is inadequate for this task. Cognition and thinking are best decribed as a history of "structural coupling" between an organism and its environmental niche.
Humberto Maturana (1970), as articulated by Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores (1986)
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