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Esteban Céspedes

2 papers in the library · publishing 2011-2024

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Emergence of meaning, signals and the concept of consciousness

Filosofia Unisinos October 30, 2024 Esteban Céspedes

Following an account of signaling games, one can show how meaning emerges and is preserved on the basis of the interactions between individuals and their environments. It is here argued that, as all concepts, a concept of consciousness is formed from a set of signaling games and is assigned a sense, from which its extensional reference can be postulated. It will be helpful to understand the...

Extended Knowledge and Causal Dependence

PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) 2011 Esteban Céspedes

One of the principal presuppositions in the extended mind account of Clark and Chalmers establishes that extended and non-extended cognitive systems have somehow the same structure and that the distinctions between them can only be superficial. In contrast, this work presents some arguments for the idea that it is possible to find fundamental differences between both, mainly on the basis that a...