This study aims to show the socio-cognitive engineering of the pickpocket craft from the point of view of cognitive ecology. Being a pickpocket has a wider, existential status; studying it goes beyond the field of cognitive sciences. My ambitions are more modest: I try to show that the question about what it is like to be someone like a pickpocket is also a question about the cognitive structure of his or her activity space. In this light, I analyze some aspects of the reality presented in the movie Pickpocket by Robert Bresson. From the ecological point of view, scenes from the old movie present pickpocketing techniques in the context of the opportunities and constraints of a given environment. I claim that studies like this require integrating certain conceptual tools, like distributed cognition approach, ecological psychology, and cognitive studies of design.

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当扒手是什么感觉

本研究旨在从认知生态学的角度展示扒手工艺的社会认知工程。作为扒手有更广泛的存在意义；研究它超出了认知科学领域。我的野心比较温和：我试图表明，像扒手一样的人是什么感觉的问题也是一个关于他或她的活动空间的认知结构的问题。有鉴于此，我分析了罗伯特·布列松 (Robert Bresson) 的电影《扒手》(Pickpocket) 中呈现的现实的某些方面。从生态的角度来看，老电影中的场景在给定环境的机会和约束的背景下呈现扒窃技术。我声称像这样的研究需要整合某些概念工具，比如分布式认知方法、生态心理学、