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. |
From inside the book
... functional contribution to weighing the precision of prediction error signals. Many of the expectations that come to guide perception and action are weighted as highly reliable because they align with the expectations of other people ...
... functionally and physically like us should enjoy any conscious mental life whatsoever . We simply take it for granted that the world is populated with conscious creatures , and we do not attempt to resolve whatever people have found to ...
... 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” mechanism as a part of the ...
... functional profile of humans, we end up reaching chauvinist verdicts when it comes to the mentality of creatures that do not share our functional profile. If, on the other hand, we allow for a more abstract char-acterisation of functional ...
... functional properties, whereas the first wave insists on similarity in functional properties. Props and artefacts have different formats: dynamical properties and functions as compared to internal, biological states and processes. Yet ...
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 |