I Could be You - the Phenomenological Dimension of Social Understanding (1997)
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| Citations: | 52 - 34 self |
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@ARTICLE{Dautenhahn97icould,
author = {Kerstin Dautenhahn},
title = {I Could be You - the Phenomenological Dimension of Social Understanding},
journal = {Cybernetics and Systems},
year = {1997},
volume = {25},
pages = {417--453}
}
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Abstract
This paper discusses the phenomenological dimension of social understanding. The author’s general hypothesis is that complex forms of social unders standing that biological agents especially humans show are based on two s. mechanisms: 1 the bodily, experiential dynamics of emphatic resonance s. and 2 the biographic reconstruction of a communication situation. The latter requires the agent’s bodily experiences as the point of reference for the reconstruction process. This hypothesis is derived from discussions in philosophy, natural sciences, and cognitive science on the social embodiment of cognition and understanding. Evidence comes from studies on social cognition in primates, infants, and autistic people that are interpreted in terms of the ``mind-experiencing’ ’ hypothesis. The second part of the The writing of this paper was supported by an HCMr TMR research grant. Thanks to Erich Prem and an anonymous reviewer for their comments and suggestions, which helped me to improve a previous version of this paper. I am grateful to both the AI-Lab at GMD in Germany and the VUB AI-Lab in Belgium for giving me an environment for doing my research on social agents. The seesaw scenario was part of a student project s Claus Divossen, Susanne Jucknath, Michael Savels. in collaboration with the University of Bonn, Germany. I thank Sanjida O’Connell for discussions on empathy and theory of mind. Armin Deierling provided me with information about autism resources and discussed with me the question of how people with autism probably perceive the world.
