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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... 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 ...
... Biological Self- Organisation and Markov Blankets . BioRxiv , DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/227181 . Chapter 6 builds on material from Kirchhoff , M.D. ( 2015c ) . Species of Realisation and the Free Energy Principle . Australasian ...
... biological agents, the changes in patterns of neural activation found within the brain of an individual are metaphysically sufficient for some cognitive process of interest (Adams and Aizawa 2008; Aizawa and Gillett 2009a, 2009b; Bickle ...
... biological ) and the cognitive process whose nature we are interested in explaining . In sharp contrast to internalism of any stripe , EM is the view that in addition to neural activity within an individual , extra - neural bodily and ...
... significant functional differences in remembering items using a list and biological memory. They argue that such a functional difference militates against treating extended and internal cognitive processes as different.
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 |