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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... internal and external feedback loops. The second twist is that we frame this prediction-driven view of conscious experience through the prism of a third-wave account of the extended mind (Sutton 2010; see also Kirchhoff 2012).1 The ...
... internal and external orbits comprising a singular cognitive system . 2. Flexible and Open - Ended Boundaries : the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard - won , and always open to negotiation . 3. Distributed ...
... external” element taken to perform a functional role in intelligent behaviour. Second, we imagine a scenario in which the same functional role is realised by an “internal” mechanism. Finally, we ask the question, should we count the ...
... internal and external elements. While the first-wave debate centred on parity-based arguments for EM, the second-wave debate aims to downplay and is often critical of parity considerations (Menary 2010; Sutton 2010). It aims to provide ...
... external, non-biological scaffolding (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 ...
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 | |
Other editions - View all
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 |