Social Norms from the Perspective of Embodied Cognition

Abstract

Like others within this title, I attempt to come to terms with the way in which human social norms emerge from, but are irreducible to, processes at the level of the individual. The particular contribution of this chapter is to suggest an emergentist account of norms which draws on the developing theory of enactive cognition. I use this to consider the characteristics needed for a system capable of simulating human-like norms in a computational environment.