Contributions from the musical experience to the debate on the nature of the mind
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https://doi.org/10.24215/2422572Xe014Keywords:
computational mind, embodiment, epistemology, epistemological relevance, situatednessAbstract
Contributions to the debate on the abstract or embodied nature of the mind are presented. In particular, the problem is presented from the epistemological point of view, around the determination of the computing unit. It shows how classical cognitive science of music exhibits an ethnocentric bias in the selection of such a unit from the experience of the Eurocentric subject. To this end, aspects of the relevance of the unit selected in terms of its scale and perspective are discussed. Using examples from the field of the psychology of musical performance, it is argued that embodied approaches are more likely to avoid these biases because they better solve the problem of the situationality of cognitive processes. It is concluded that the attention to the situationality of the cognitive processes favors the epistemic plurality in the psychology of music and therefore constitutes a defense of cognitive justice.
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