“Tackling Stillness Through Movement”; Or Constraining the Extended Mind

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-103
Author(s):  
Kobus Marais ◽  
Jani Marais
Keyword(s):  
Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Fiorella Battaglia

Moral issues arise not only when neural technology directly influences and affects people’s lives, but also when the impact of its interventions indirectly conceptualizes the mind in new, and unexpected ways. It is the case that theories of consciousness, theories of subjectivity, and third person perspective on the brain provide rival perspectives addressing the mind. Through a review of these three main approaches to the mind, and particularly as applied to an “extended mind”, the paper identifies a major area of transformation in philosophy of action, which is understood in terms of additional epistemic devices—including a legal perspective of regulating the human–machine interaction and a personality theory of the symbiotic connection between human and machine. I argue this is a new area of concern within philosophy, which will be characterized in terms of self-objectification, which becomes “alienation” following Ernst Kapp’s philosophy of technology. The paper argues that intervening in the brain can affect how we conceptualize the mind and modify its predicaments.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Clark
Keyword(s):  

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Federico Gabriel Burdman

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2015v19n3p475In this paper I look into a problem concerning the characterization of the main conceptual commitments of the ‘post-cognitivist’ theoretical framework. I will firs consider critically a proposal put forth by Rowlands (2010), which identifie the theoretical nucleus of post-cognitivism with a convergence of the theses of the extended and the embodied mind. The shortcomings I fin in this proposal will lead me to an indepedent and wider issue concerning the apparent tensions between functionalism and the embodied and enactive approaches. I will then discuss the standing of embodied, enactive and extended approaches in the face of the dividing issue concerning functionalism, with an eye on the possibility of divorcing the thesis of the extended mind of its original formulation in functionalist terms. In this way, I shall consider the outlook of overcoming some of the conceptual tensions in post-cognitivism by thinking its theoretical framework as non-functionalist.


2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Merritt
Keyword(s):  

Forum Poetyki ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Antoniuk
Keyword(s):  

Artykuł jest próbą odpowiedzi na pytanie o to, jakie korzyści może zyskać poetyka, wchodząc w metodologiczną kooperację z krytyką genetyczną. Odpowiedź opiera się na definicji, sformułowanej przez Dorotę Korwin-Piotrowską, stwierdzającą, że „pojęcia z zakresu poetyki są zapisem poznawczego wysiłku, by zbadać i opisać pracę ludzkiego umysłu”. W szkicu postawiona zostaje teza, wedle której szczególna (choć rzecz jasna ograniczona) możliwość poznawania „pracy ludzkiego umysłu” pojawia się wówczas, gdy poetyka – współpracując z krytyką genetyczną – zajmuje się nie tylko gotową postacią tekstu, lecz także tekstem in statu nascendi (zapisem procesu tekstotwórczego, jakim jest brulion). Twierdzenie to zostaje następnie zilustrowane za pomocą poglądowej analizy, łączącej opis poetologiczny z genetycznym, a poświęconej pracy nad rymem, wykonywanej przez Czesława Miłosza w trakcie pisania dwu wierszy: Rozmów na Wielkanoc 1620 roku i Na ścięcie damy dworu. W zakończeniu szkicu pojawiają się dalsze uwagi teoretyczne, między innymi odwołujące się do pojęcia extended mind oraz współczesnych, podmiotowych i czynnościowych koncepcji kultury.


Author(s):  
Jordi Vallverdú

AI is a multidisciplinary activity that involves specialists from several fields, and we can say that the aim of science, and AI science, is solving problems. AI and computer sciences are been creating a new kind of making science, that we can call in silico science. Both models top-eown and bottomup are useful for e-scientific research. There is no a real controversy between them. Besides, the extended mind model of human cognition, involves human-machine interactions. Huge amount of data requires new ways to make and organize scientific practices: supercomputers, grids, distributed computing, specific software and middleware and, basically, more efficient and visual ways to interact with information. This is one of the key points to understand contemporary relationships between humans and machines: usability of scientific data.


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