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Mind embedded or extended: transhumanist and posthumanist reflections in support of the extended mind thesis
The goal of this paper is to encourage participants in the debate about the locus of cognition (e.g., extended mind vs embedded mind) to turn their...
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Prolegomena to a phenomenology of mind-wandering
For as long as philosophers ignore mind-wandering, they will disregard from one-third to one-half of conscious thoughts. Regrettably, mind-wandering...
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Life-mind continuity: untangling categorical, extensional, and systematic aspects
In this paper, I argue that current attempts at classifying life–mind continuity (LMC) feature several important ambiguities. We can resolve these...
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Placing Mind in the Natural World: In Search of an Alternative Naturalism
In contemporary philosophy, various attempts have been made in relation to placing our minds or mental states in the natural world or nature. In this...
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Philosophy of Mind: Mind-Body Identity and Eliminative Materialism
A critical outline is given of Rorty’s early, “eliminativist” attempt to formulate a materialist version of the mind-body identity theory that does...
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Tendency, Repetition, and the Activity of the Mind in Traumatic Experiences
The study of traumatic experiences led Freud to investigate what he termed a compulsion to repeat. The present paper takes up the idea of a tendency...
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Framing the predictive mind: why we should think again about Dreyfus
In this paper I return to Hubert Dreyfus’ old but influential critique of artificial intelligence, redirecting it towards contemporary predictive...
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Emotion against reason? Self-control conflict as self-modelling rivalry
Divided-mind approaches to the conflict involved in self-control are pervasive. According to an influential version of the divided-mind approach,...
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Digitally Scaffolded Vulnerability: Facebook’s Recommender System as an Affective Scaffold and a Tool for Mind Invasion
I aim to illustrate how the recommender systems of digital platforms create a particularly problematic kind of vulnerability in their users....
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Quantum Mind: Part 1
This chapter and the next review the question of what place does quantum thinking play in the post-Anthropocene, as questions of materiality are...
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Face perception and mind misreading
What is the role of face perception in mindreading? I explore this question by focusing on our quick impressions of others when we look at their...
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Whewell’s Hylomorphism as a Metaphorical Explanation for How Mind and World Merge
William Whewell’s nineteenth century philosophy of science is sometimes glossed over as a footnote to Kant. There is however a key feature of...
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The genesis of the minimal mind: elements of a phenomenological and functional account
In this article, we endeavour to lay the theoretical fundaments of a phenomenologically based project regarding the origins of conscious experience...
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Life and Mind
The physical world maintains its order and balance through physical symmetries. These symmetries are invariant laws that hold in all places and at...
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From ‘the Mind Isolated with the Body’ to ‘the Mind Being Embodied’
In the interpretation of the body in the twentieth century, philosophy placed less emphasis than before on its natural composition and sought to...
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Sensing mind-independence
I propose that the fundamental challenge Berkeley left realists is to account for experiences’ ability to present items as mind-independent,...
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Minimal theory of mind – a Millikanian Approach
Minimal theory of mind (ToM) is presented in the theory of mind literature as a middle ground between full-blown ToM and mere behavior-reading....
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Virtual Reality and the Emergence of Mind
I focus on the concept of “virtuality” (the perception of possible states) to explain how emergence evolves to establish the domain of mind and...
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Theory of Mind in Artificial Intelligence Applications
Theory of Mind refers to the ability to understand and predict other people’s thoughts, emotions, and intentions, and is essential for successful...
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Meta-awareness, mind wandering and negative mood in the context of the continuity hypothesis of dreaming
In the waking state, in the absence of meta-awareness, mind wandering with specific contents can lead to negative mood. Such negative mood can be...