Love it. Adding it to my lecture on evolutionary psychology.

The best paper/chapter that I've read on embodied cognition is Ch 8 of Andy Clark's Being There. He advocates for a sensible middle view.

For example, that all cognition should be modeled as dynamic coupling with the environment, without any need for internal representations.

I think of it as a spectrum of views that range from the obvious to the absurd. Its proponents typically describe a handful of examples that support views on the obvious end and then claim to have established one of the views on the absurd end.

I stuck around until 12:20. Will there be a recording?

I think the latest cuts will save ~$2m. It's hard to know how helpful this will be -- they haven't given us any financial details. They have minimized the faculty's role in all aspects of the college, including oversight of the budget.

On a more optimistic note, I just want to say that I'm incredibly proud of the reporting by our students at the Spectator. They are a consistent source of balanced and informed reporting about all issues, large and small.

The crisis at Barnard is at least partly because Columbia is trying to solve its own budgetary problems by forcing Barnard to contribute more. This year, it has to contribute ~$12m in addition to its usual contribution of ~$10m.

And here's some important background about the budgetary crisis in Arts & Sciences at Columbia (the article is from 2016 -- it has gotten much worse since). www.columbiaspectator.com/archives/lea...