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Artificial intelligence, extended cognition, and the narratives of cyberimmortality

Filosofia Unisinos April 1, 2025 Leomar Peruzzo

The article shows how the extended mind theory, which suggests that cognition is not confined to the brain but extends beyond the body, is used to redefine our understanding of the nature of the mind and legitimize narratives of cyberimmortality. Additionally, it explores how this concept has been considered within the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). By exploring the interactions between...

Can jinn be a tonic? The therapeutic value of spirit-related beliefs, practices and experiences

Filosofia Unisinos October 30, 2024 Anastasia Philippa Scrutton 4 citations

Religion and spirituality are increasingly associated with mental health, yet spirit-related practices, beliefs and experiences (SPBEs) are regarded with more suspicion. This suspicion is misplaced, and worryingly so, since, I argue, it shuts down a potentially therapeutic avenue in relation to anomalous experiences such as hearing voices and sensing the presence of the dead. A presupposition...

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...

On the notion of dialectics in the linguistic bodies theory

Filosofia Unisinos October 30, 2024 Nara M. Figueiredo

This paper addresses the notion of dialectics in the linguistic bodies theory. First, it presents it as a three-aspect concept, namely, the ontological aspect, the methodological aspect, and the dialectical model. Subsequently, it discusses the ontological aspect and the dialectical model and, based on the enactivist linguistic notions of concreteness and abstraction, suggests that it can be...

The obscurity of the physical: an objection to Chalmers’ conceivability argument

Filosofia Unisinos October 30, 2024 Felipe G. A. Moreira

A zombie world is a possible world in which all the microphysical truths are identical to the truths in our world, but no one is phenomenally conscious. A zombie is an individual in a possible world whose microphysical truths are identical to the microphysical truths of an individual in our world, but who has none of the phenomenal conscious experiences of the individual in our world. An...