Extending the Extended Mind: From Cognition to Consciousness

Author:   Pii Telakivi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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Pages:   217
Publication Date:   26 July 2023
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Author:   Pii Telakivi
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.437kg
ISBN:  

9783031356230


ISBN 10:   3031356233
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   26 July 2023
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Format:   Hardback
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1 A Roadmap from the Extended Mind to the Extended Conscious Mind.1.1 Where Does the Mind Stop?. 1.2 Concepts of Cognition and Consciousness. 1.3 4E’s: Embodied, Embedded, Enacted, Extended. 1.3.1 Embodied. 1.3.2 Embedded. 1.3.3 Enacted. 1.3.4 Extended. 1.4 From the Extended Mind to the Extended Conscious Mind. 1.4.1 The Extended Mind. 1.4.2 The Waves to the Extended Conscious Mind. 1.4.3 Vehicular Externalism. 1.5 Conclusions and Methodological Remarks. References. 2 Arguments for Extended Conscious Mind. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 First Argument for ECM: Parity Argument. 2.2.1 Cognition and Consciousness Are Often Inseparable. 2.2.2 Occurrent EM. 2.2.3 Wheeler’s Objection. 2.2.4 Summing Up the First Argument. 2.3 Second Argument for ECM: Sensorimotor Enactivism. 2.3.1 Landscapes of Sensorimotor Enactivism. 2.3.2 Bridging the Comparative Explanatory Gap. 2.3.3 Sensorimotor Reductionism or Sensorimotor Integrationism?. 2.3.4 Temporal Nature, Virtual Presence. 2.3.5 Arguments Drawn from Sensorimotor Enactivism in Support of ECM. 2.3.6 Does Entailment Hold? From the Personal to the Sub-Personal Level. 2.3.7 Summing Up the Second Argument. 2.4 Third Argument for ECM: The Leaky Body. 2.4.1 Experience Is Embodied. 2.4.2 The Frontiers of the Body Are Not Rigid. 2.4.3 External Body Parts as Substrates of Experience. 2.5 Conclusions to the Three Arguments. References. 3 The Constitution-Turn and Extended Conscious Mind. 3.1 Introduction. 3.1.1 The Causal–Constitution Fallacy. 3.1.2 The Constituted Phenomenon: The Dynamic Nature of Experiences. 3.2 Defining Constitution. 3.2.1 Material Constitution. 3.2.2 Mechanist Constitution. 3.2.3 Diachronic–Dynamical Constitution. 3.3 Demarcating the System Boundaries. 3.3.1 Mutual Manipulability as a Demarcation Criterion. 3.4 Conclusions. References. 4 Tools as Extenders: The Pathway to Functional Incorporation. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 The Spectrum of Extensions. 4.2.1 Momentary Extension. 4.2.2 Integrated Extension. 4.2.3 Prosthetic Incorporation. 4.2.4 Functional Incorporation. 4.2.5 Summing Up the Four Degrees of Extension. 4.3 “Glue & Trust” Conditions. 4.3.1 Glue & Trust Conditions for EM. 4.3.2 Criteria Compared with ECM. 4.3.3 Glue & Trust Conditions for ECM. 4.4 An Example of Functional Incorporation: Sensory Substitution. 4.5 Conclusions. References. 5 Possible Objections to Extended Conscious Mind. 5.1 Introduction. 5.1.1 Clark’s Criticisms of ECM. 5.2 The Argument from High Bandwidth. 5.2.1 Answers to the High-Bandwidth Argument. 5.3 Predictive Processing. 5.3.1 Answering the Counter-argument from Predictive Processing. 5.4 The Brain-in-a-Vat Thought Experiment. 5.5 Dreams and Hallucinations. 5.5.1 Revonsuo’s Dream Argument. 5.5.2 Answering the Dream Challenge. 5.6 Summarising the Counter-arguments. References. 6 Concluding Remarks and the Future of Extension. References.

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Pii Telakivi is a post-doctoral researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki and was a Fulbright Finland Junior Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focus lies on extended, embodied cognition and consciousness, and at the intersections between philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and psychiatry.

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