Traditional cognitive science is Cartesian in the sense that it takes as fundamental the distinction between the mental and the physical, the mind and the world. This leads to the claim that cognition is representational and best explained using models derived from AI and computational theory. The authors depart radically from this model.
Walter J. Freeman is in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley and the author of Societies of Brains, and How Brains Make up their Minds.
Rafael Nunez is in the Institute of Cognitive Studies, UC Berkeley and co-author (with George Lakoff) of Where Mathematics Comes From.