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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... explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kirchhoff, Michael ...
... explain how it is that predictive processing metaphysically necessitates phenomenal consciousness. We do not discuss the hard problem of consciousness (c.f. Chalmers 1995). Nor do we address the arguments that have been made for an ...
... explain some phenomenon of interest , such as phenomenal consciousness . What - explanations aim to account for what a subject experiences . We will use predictive processing to develop a how - explanation of phenomenal consciousness ...
... explained in terms of psychological processes conceived of as properties of individuals taken in isolation from their (social) environments. Internalism can be questioned. Methodological internalism has been questioned since the 1970s ...
... 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 environmental elements may be parts of the metaphysically sufficient ...
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 |