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Substituting The Senses, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein, Andy Clark
Substituting The Senses, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein, Andy Clark
Mirko Farina
Sensory substitution devices are a type of sensory prosthesis that (typically) convert visual stimuli transduced by a camera into tactile or auditory stimulation. They are designed to be used by people with impaired vision so that they can recover some of the functions normally subserved by vision. In this chapter we will consider what philosophers might learn about the nature of the senses from the neuroscience of sensory substitution. We will show how sensory substitution devices work by exploiting the cross-modal plasticity of sensory cortex: the ability of sensory cortex to pick up some types of information about the external …
The Evolved Apprentice. How Evolution Made Humans Unique, Mirko Farina
The Evolved Apprentice. How Evolution Made Humans Unique, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.
Do Ssds Extend The Conscious Mind?, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein
Do Ssds Extend The Conscious Mind?, Mirko Farina, Julian Kiverstein
Mirko Farina
Is the brain the biological substrate of consciousness? Most naturalistic philosophers of mind have supposed that the answer must obviously be «yes » to this question. However, a growing number of philosophers working in 4e (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) cognitive science have begun to challenge this assumption, arguing instead that consciousness supervenes on the whole embodied animal in dynamic interaction with the environment. We call views that share this claim dynamic sensorimotor theories of consciousness (DSM). Clark (2009), a founder and leading proponent of the hypothesis of the extended mind, demurs, arguing that as matter of fact the biology of …
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
No abstract provided.
Supersizing The Mind: Embodiment, Action And Cognitive Extension, Mirko Farina
Supersizing The Mind: Embodiment, Action And Cognitive Extension, Mirko Farina
Mirko Farina
No abstract provided.