Question

Philosopher Andy Clark gives a wonderful example of the blue-fin tuna's physicality. He says that the tuna has the incredible ability to navigate gracefully through water, to turn quickly, and to start swimming quickly from a standstill. However, the actual muscle abilities of the tuna are too weak by about a factor of seven to actually perform these tasks all by itself; instead the tuna is taking advantage of natural currents of the water. What point does he say this example illustrates?

Answer 1

The correct answer is The embodied coupling between organism and environment

The organism-environment interactions are such that they can be seen as a continuum in which the transition from Psychology to Biology or to the Social Sciences is often a matter of agreeing limits. The experimental analysis of behavior uses contingencies and functional relationships as instruments for the study of organism-environment interactions.