ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes Situated Awareness (SA) and surveys key contributions from cognitive science that problematise the status of an agent's 'mind' in current SA theory. SA is said to have been identified during first World War by Oswald Boelke to help predict the strategy and position of the enemy. The chapter posits that the ways in which agents practice the acts of conditioning, training and executions of SA is important, since a compromised practice of awareness has the potential to adversely affect even the most strategically designed supporting protocols, plans and applications of technology. The chapter identifies knowledge from performance practice, selecting transferable principles that could potentially be valuable for SA. Awareness is a slippery word. It can mean modes or sites of consciousness and/or spheres of knowing, including perception awareness, motor awareness, awareness of action, mindfulness as awareness, pre-reflective awareness and qualities of states of being or feeling as an embodied self.
