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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... Sensorimotor enactivism and extended consciousness 2.2.1 The no-magical-membrane argument 2.2.2 The variable-neural-correlates argument 2.2.3 An externalist account of the qualities of experience 2.3 The DEUTS argument for extended ...
... sensorimotor enactivism 4.1 The Markov blanket and its partitioning rule 4.2 Bayes's rule and the Kullback-Leibler divergence. Figures. 1.1 Incorporation of external elements into a process of calculation 2.1 An agent and its environment ...
... sensorimotor enactivism ( c.f. Hurley 1998 ) . We argue that perceptual consciousness is realised in interactions among neural , bodily , and environmental dynamics and that these interactions have a particular temporal structure . This ...
... sensorimotor enactivism for what - explanations . It is sensorimotor enactivism which properly understood can be shown to entail an extended view of phenomenal consciousness . The how- and what - explanations we develop do not speak ...
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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 |