*If we had a technology base that was dominated by robotics, IoT sensors, big data, and deep learning (rather than today's dualistic divisions of software/hardware and virtual/actual) we'd probably be way into "situated cognition."
*A fictional world where everybody believed in "cognitive situations" and that was the common paradigm would be quite interesting. Unfortunately, it would probably take five or six years of concentrated extrapolative effort to even start to figure that out.
Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing[1] by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts.[2]
Under this assumption, which requires an epistemological shift from empiricism, situativity theorists suggest a model of knowledge and learning that requires thinking on the fly rather than the storage and retrieval of conceptual knowledge. In essence, cognition cannot be separated from the context. Instead knowing exists, in situ, inseparable from context, activity, people, culture, and language. Therefore, learning is seen in terms of an individual's increasingly effective performance across situations rather than in terms of an accumulation of knowledge, since what is known is co-determined by the agent and the context. This perspective rejects mind–body dualism, being conceptually similar to functional contextualism…
