There’s a great new article on the extended mind, titled, “How Google Is Making Us Smarter“, in Discover Magazine’s latest issue. You should definitely check it out.
The theory of the extended mind suggests that the mind is not contained exclusively ‘inside’ the skull, but rather that it extends into the external environment. While our [...]
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The Extended Mind: Technology is Making Us Smarter
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Technology, tagged Andy Clark, Cognitive Science, David Chalmers, Discover Magazine, embodied mind, embodiment, extended memory, extended mind, externalism, google, internalism, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Technology on January 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Monday Profile: Francisco Varela
Posted in Biological Sciences, Cognitive Science, Eastern Thought, Medicine, Meditation/Yoga, Monday Profile, Neuroscience, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, philosophy, tagged autopoiesis, biology, cognitve science, edmund husserl, embodied mind, embodiment, Francisco Varela, Integral Institute, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, neurophenomenology, Neuroscience, Phenomenology, philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Tibetan Buddhism, varela on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Francisco Varela (1946-2001) was a Chilean biologist, neuroscientist and philosopher, and is on the shortlist of visionary pioneers who conceived the interdisciplinary thesis of the embodied mind.
He began his academic career studying medicine and biology but also had a wide philosophical orientation, being primarily influenced by the work of phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Maurice [...]
VIDEO: Alva Noë Discusses the Problems of Consciousness
Posted in Art, Cognitive Science, Dance and Movement Art, Neuroscience, Perception, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Video, philosophy, tagged Alva Noë, analytic philosophy, Art, brain, brain science, Cognitive Science, cognitivism, consciousness, dance, embodiment, enactivism, experience, intentionality, minds, Neuroscience, Perception, Phenomenology, philosophy, philosophy of art, Philosophy of Mind, reference, Video on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over at Edge, a video interview and written transcript have been posted of Alva Noë discussing many of the philosophical problems concerning consciousness, and how a paradigm shift toward an embodied understanding of mind might help to resolve those problems.
Within it, Noë notes that most modern cognitivist research about consciousness and experience within neuroscience [...]
Monday Profile: António Damásio
Posted in Monday Profile, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, philosophy, tagged Antonio Damasio, BCI, Brain and Creativity Institute, Descartes, Descartes' Error, embodiment, Monday Profile, reason and emotion, somatic-marker hypothesis, Tate Modern on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
António Damásio is a Portuguese neuroscientist currently working at the University of Southern California, where he heads USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute.
His contributions to the Philosophy of Embodiment are most accessible in his two bestsellers Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, and The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the [...]
Decision-Making is Really a “Planned Motor Response”
Posted in Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, tagged brain studies, Cognitive Science, embodied cognition, embodiment, neurology, Neuroscience on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to some new EU-funded research, there’s more evidence that certain simple decision-making is processed within sensory-motor mechanisms rather than in parts of the brain associated with higher cognition and self-awareness.
This supports the notion that cognition is embodied, according to researchers.
Basically, it means that higher-level abstract cognition is not disconnected or ‘disembodied’ from [...]
