In the digital age, where human experience is increasingly shaped by algorithms, some scholars have appealed to Clark and Chalmers’s Extended Mind hypothesis to account for human–algorithm relations. These accounts suggest that algorithmically generated content functions as an extension of human cognition. This paper argues that while certain forms of online cognition may indeed be...
The paper brings together two different theoretical strands of research, one from cognitive science, the other from Science and Technology Studies. The purpose in so doing is to uncover how cognition interrelates with socio-material practices and AI technology. An integrative framework is presented as a possible way for connecting the two strands while theorizing on their interrelations with AI.
Resilience is a basic trait of cognitive systems and fundamentally connected to their autopoietic organization. It plays a vital role in maintaining the identity of cognitive systems in the face of external threats and perturbances. However, when examining resilience in the context of autopoiesis, an overlooked issue arises: the autopoietic theory formulated by Maturana and Varela (1980)...
This paper presents an alternative to Autopoietic Enactivism in the form of a Code Biology-informed account on human sense-making. It demonstrates the possibility of avoiding a dualism between, on the one hand, the autonomy of individual sense-makers and, on the other, the heteronomy of social facts. This is possible because code biological principles are pertinent to different levels of...