Is the Mind Ever Constituted by Bodily Processes Outside the Brain? Exploring Embodied Cognition
BILT Student Research Journal 2025 - Issue 6 July 1, 2025 Sophie Wood
In this essay I explore whether the mind is ever constituted by processes that are not in the brain. I interrogate whether the processes of remembering when typing words on a keyboard are all processes done by the brain, suggesting that perhaps the hands do some of the remembering themselves. We typically think of remembering as a minded activity, and therefore it would seem that the processes...