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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... 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 ...
... Constitution: Reevaluating the Constitutive Claim of Extended Cognition. Philosophical Psychology, 27(2), 258–283 and Kiverstein , J. ( 2017 ) . Extended Cognition . List of boxes, figures, and tables Acknowledgements.
... claim this is true of all forms of conscious experience. The kind of experiences we have while imagining something ... claims that minds in general, starting from those of the simplest of living organisms and scaling up to the human mind ...
... claims that conscious experience is the outcome of settling on an interpretation of how things are in the world that does the best job of reducing prediction error across the sensory hierarchy as a whole . This requires balancing the ...
... claim that elements of the external environment causally influence cognitive processes or mental states. As already ... claims that under certain conditions cognitive processes and cognitive systems may be constituted or realised by ...
Contents
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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 |