Toward an Ecology of Deep Space Consciousness
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) August 8, 2026 Nigel D’sa
Human spaceflight has been evaluated largely through physiological endurance and operational success. A more fundamental question has gone untested: whether cognition remains viable when the environmental conditions that have always accompanied human life are radically altered. This article argues, from ecological-enactive theories of cognition, that human cognition is constituted through...