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ACCIOLY, Maria Inês. Cognitive tactics: simulation and the effect of reality. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2006, vol.9, pp. 56-63. ISSN 1806-5821.

This paper endeavours to put simulation into the frame of cognitive sciences, by proposing the following definition: simulation is an interactive cognitive strategy which consists in producing model-based effect of reality. This definition is supported by the philosophical concept of simulacrum; by the tradition of the experimental sciences, and by the contemporary computational technologies, that makes large use of algorithmic simulation models in scientific research. We aim, also, to seek "resonances" of this subject - simulation - on the theories since 19th century which included the action of the observer into the concept of cognition, such as Bergson's thesis of the indissociability between perception and action and Varela's concept of enaction.

Palabras clave : simulation; embodied cognition; enaction.

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