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Viki
McCabe -
Cognitive Science
Cognitive scientist Viki McCabe is the author of Coming to Our
Senses (2014), a book in which she argues
that prevailing theories of perception, cognition, and information cannot
explain how we know the world around us. McCabe shows that ecological
disasters, political paralysis, and economic failures originate in our tendency
to use mechanistic theories that reduce the world to extractable parts.
But the world - from cells to cities - does not function as an assembly
of parts. Instead, it is a coalition of complex systems. Each system
reveals itself in fractal-like geometric configurations based on its structural
organization. The book challenges how readers perceive the world yet it
is eminently readable and compelling. McCabe is also joint editor of Event
Cognition: An Ecological Perspective (1986, Kindle edt. 2014).
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