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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... role for cultural practice in precision estimation 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The predictive processing account of sensorimotor understanding 5.3 Seeing what you expect to see 5.4 The cognitive assembly of consciousness 5.5 The argument for ...
... role that prior expectations play in shaping conscious experience . Predictive processing 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 ...
... Wilson (1994). Active externalism is “active” in the sense of allowing elements of the environment to play “an active role in driving cognitive processes” (Clark and Chalmers 1998, p. 7). The “driving influence” they had in.
... role for the environment. Clark and Chalmers were out to defend the altogether more daring and controversial thesis that elements located in the environment are sometimes literally parts of our mind – proper parts of the conditions ...
... role functionalism , associated either with common - sense functionalism ( Clark and Chalmers 1998 ; Clark 2008 ) or with psychofunctionalism (Wheeler 2010). Functionalists claim that what different token mental states First-wave ...
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 |