Compare And Contrast Tetris Vs Otto's Notebook

The theme behind both the Tetris scenario and Otto’s notebook is what Clark called the Parity Principle (PP): “If, as we confront some task, a part of the world functions as a process which, were it to go on in the head, we would have no hesitation in accepting as part of the cognitive process, then that part of the world is (for that time) part of the cognitive process.”(Clark, 2005) The Parity Principle infer to a ‘location’ based cognition, where it rejects the assumption that the location of cognition is only within the brain. In other words, elements that are recognized to have cognition as it’s property will contain the property regardless of the location the particular element is at. Rupert (2010) offered a scenario where the generalized …show more content…
But the lone neuron in preparation is not part of the brain therefore it does not have the properties of neural processing simply due to its location (ibid). The location gives the element context in how it should and able to function, and the location-dependency changes the process or action of the particular element. For the Parity Principle to be appropriate, that cognition may lie in unexpected location, it only is valid if location does not change the status of its cognition (ibid). Rupert went on and argued that the property of cognition is present only if it is part of an integrated cognitive system and that this system only reside in a bodily boundary (ibid). This relates back to the use of cognition in the brain as a basis for the recognition of extended cognition. It might be that external processes are accepted as part of cognition if it were in the head because in the head, it would be integrated in the bodily cognitive system (ibid). The integration allows another interpretation of the ‘extended’ cognition that also incorporate location