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Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds And Spongy Brains, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina
Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds And Spongy Brains, Julian Kiverstein, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
We offer an argument for the extended mind based on considerations from brain development. We argue that our brains develop to function in partnership with cognitive resources located in our external environments. Through our cultural upbringing we are trained to use artefacts in problem solving that become factored into the cognitive routines our brains support. Our brains literally grow to work in close partnership with resources we regularly and reliably interact with. We take this argument to be in line with complementarity or “second-wave” defences of the extended mind that stress the functional differences between biological elements and external, environmental …
Cognitive Systems And The Extended Mind, Mirko Farina
Cognitive Systems And The Extended Mind, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
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