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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... environmental ( cultural , social , material ) . 4. Diachronic Constitution : Cognition is intrinsically temporal and dynamical , unfolding over different but interacting temporal scales of behaviour.2 In the remainder of our ...
... environmental elements may be parts of the metaphysically sufficient conditions for some forms of cognition.1 Internalist theories share in common the claim that while elements of the environment may exert a causal influence on ...
... realised in processes that combine neural, bodily, and environmental structures. Simple examples include a shopping list and doing calculations with pen and paper (Figure 1.1). Figure 1.1 Incorporation of external elements into a process ...
... environmental structures, such as artefacts and tools. Cognitive processes are not located exclusively within the individual, because they are realised in part through bodily actions in which the agent engages their skill to actively ...
... environmental structures ( Menary 2010 , p . 229 ) . Menary stresses that the bodily actions that the agent performs are not simply an alternative means of realising the information - processing functions that would otherwise be ...
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 |