Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave ViewIn this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body, and the social, material, and cultural world. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein offer a state-of-the-art tour of current arguments for and against extended consciousness. They aim to persuade you that it is possible to develop and defend the thesis of extended consciousness through the increasingly influential predictive processing theory developed in cognitive neuroscience. They show how predictive processing can be given a new reading as part of a third-wave account of the extended mind. The third-wave claims that the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard-won, and always open to negotiation. It calls into question any separation of the biological from the social and cultural when thinking about the boundaries of the mind. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein show how this account of the mind finds support in predictive processing, leading them to a view of phenomenal consciousness as partially realised by patterns of cultural practice. |
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... Menary 2007; Rowlands 1999; Sutton 2010; Wheeler 2010). A familiar example is the relationship people have with their mobile phones. Barely a moment passes when we find ourselves alone before we reach into our pockets for our phones ...
... (Menary 2010; Sutton 2010). It aims to provide a different set of considerations in support of EM that do not turn on the commitments of one's preferred version of functionalism. Second-wave theories argue that external structures like ...
... (Menary 2007). The latter delivers something genuinely new that could not be accomplished by relying on only internal biological formats of processing. It is these different functional properties that the second wave claims a science of ...
... Menary 2010 ) . Such a dimensioned view is opened up once we recognise the variety of formats and radical heterogeneity of cognitive technologies humans can make use of in their thinking.3 For example , we can distinguish between the ...
Contents
1986 | |
1995 | |
From extended mind to extended consciousness? | |
Extended dynamic singularities models processes | |
Flexible and openended boundaries Markov blankets | |
a role for cultural practice | |
Notes | |
Extended diachronic constitution predictive processing | |
Concluding remarks | |
Index | |
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Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third-wave View Michael D. Kirchhoff,Julian Kiverstein No preview available - 2019 |
Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View Michael D. Kirchhoff,Julian Kiverstein No preview available - 2023 |