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The Ethics of the Extended Mind: Mental Privacy, Manipulation and Agency
According to proponents of the extended mind, bio-external resources, such as a notebook or a smartphone, are candidate parts of the cognitive and mental machinery that realises cognitive states and processes....
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Open AccessMinds in the Metaverse: Extended Cognition Meets Mixed Reality
Examples of extended cognition typically involve the use of technologically low-grade bio-external resources (e.g., the use of pen and paper to solve long multiplication problems). The present paper describes ...
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Predicting Me: The Route to Digital Immortality?
An emerging consensus in cognitive science views the biological brain as a hierarchically-organized predictive processing system that relies on generative models to predict the structure of sensory information...
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Open AccessWhere the smart things are: social machines and the Internet of Things
The emergence of large-scale social media systems, such as Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter, has given rise to a new multi-disciplinary effort based around the concept of social machines. For the most part, this ...
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Open AccessExtended Cognition and the Internet
The Internet is an important focus of attention for those concerned with issues of extended cognition. In particular, the application of active externalist theorizing to the Internet gives rise to the notion o...
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Open AccessSituating Machine Intelligence Within the Cognitive Ecology of the Internet
The Internet is an important focus of attention for the philosophy of mind and cognitive science communities. This is partly because the Internet serves as an important part of the material environment in whic...
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The Cognitive Ecology of the Internet
In this chapter, we analyze the relationships between the Internet and its users in terms of situated theory. We first argue that the Internet is a new kind , providing almost constant access to a vast am...
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A Taxonomic Framework for Social Machines
Within the context of the World Wide Web, we have witnessed the emergence of a rich range of technologies that support both collaboration and distributed processing. Applications such as Wikipedia, for instanc...
