FITTING THE BODY TO THE MIND - COGNITIVE TASKS AND SOMATIC TOOLS

Human action is both intentional directed toward goals, and it is subj ect to criteria of right and wrong. The problem of a simulation of int entionality has been much discussed but the issue of normativity has a ttracted less attention. It can be approached through the question of the relation between simulations of rule-following and how normatively constrained actions are performed in concrete situations. Writing out explicit rules can express the norms of an activity. Skills express n orms from the point of view of action. There are three kinds of regula rities in behavior: causal responses, monitored actions, and habits. H abits embody implicit rules. There are good and bad habits implemented by the neural mechanisms produced by programming a machine. But they also embedded in normative constraints of institutional or social orde rs extrinsic to the action and its foundations in the ''innards'' of o rganism or machine. Extrinsic norms are never complete, or completable . New situations call for new normative decisions. The Turing Test is limited in that successfully passing it can never resolve the question of the normativity of a simulated action patten.