Cognition/Modeling, 2d cybernetics & enaction, techno-hermeneutics, epistemic & creative cognition, self-design & lived bio-logic. Meaning & sense making.
, and how this functionalist cognitivist style has been "metabolized and digested" comprehensively into the embodied enactive style of thinking:
In a nutshell: 
1. Technologies as sensorimotor externalizations.
This understanding allows us to shed light on the nature of technical artifacts, notably automatic computing machines, and their power to shape our embodied minds, but also to highlight certain crucial keys to better understanding ourselves and extending our self-knowledge.
Then I began to be interested in the symbolism of numbers, that is, numbers not as quantities but as *qualities*: one as unity, two as duality, three as trinity, etc. (I recently discovered that Pierce also followed this path), and also in heraldry and symbolism in general. 
The correspondence with the "computer" is obvious: 
But because they are caught in a linguistic cognitivist and formalist expressions (declarative knowledge coupled with propositional logic), they tend to fall into an opposite "Relational Realism" trap by searching for an "ontological" ultimate ground.
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of the current standard of academic rationality, not to weaken it but on the contrary to strengthen it in the face of machine-based process logics and increase our intelligibility of the deep logics currently at work on a global scale.
Here is a blog post that details this strong strategic trend, with supporting publications: 
of artificial cognition ("AI") and a-life models of emergences (CA, connectionist models, swarms, evolutionary processing, etc), based on iterative cycles of modeling/observations/phenomenological inquiry/comparative study with scholar literature.
which are nevertheless crucial for understanding cognition and the mind, that is to say, consciousness and our own perceptions of ourselves.
The keystone of cognition is precisely its capacity to express meaning and regularities; information must appear not as an intrinsic order but as an emergent order of cognitive activities themselves.
Where behaviorist science is condemned to accumulate occurrences to infinity in order to generalize them, a phenomenologist can also simply study a psychological/cognitive phenomenon *directly* through its voluntary repression.