Transhumanism embraces the use of technology to enhance human capabilities. In keeping with traditional theories of cognition, transhumanists typically assume that mental capacities are organism-bound (or brain-bound), and enhancement is thus achieved exclusively by modifying the human organism. However, 4E cognition challenges this assumption. Instead, understanding the mind as extended or...
Abstract Taking its cue from replacement and constitution hypotheses (Chapter 5), this chapter highlights the cognitive significance of embodied religious practices and religious material culture. It applies dozens of specific empirical findings from embodied cognition research to Christian Eucharistic practices, among other examples. Studies should be treated with caution given methodological...
Abstract This chapter details and evaluates of the ‘replacement’ and ‘constitution’ hypotheses, the two remaining hypotheses of embodied cognition which were introduced in Chapter 2. The replacement hypothesis seeks to explain cognitive processes by replacing internal mental representations with sensorimotor engagement with the world. It elegantly describes how internal mental models are not...