What if the Hypothesis of Extended Cognition and the Extended Mind Thesis are true? According to S. Orestis Palermos, in Cybor Rights, the acceptance of these theses implies a reconsideration of the way in which we understand mental privacy, mental integrity, and personal integrity. However, the reconsideration of these concepts could generate an undue assimilation between our thoughts and our...
To the extent that the performance of embodied and situated cognitive agents is predicated on fore- thought, such agents must remember, and learn from, the past to predict the future. In complex, non-stationary environments, such learning is facilitated by an intrinsic motivation to seek novelty. A significant part of an agent’s identity is thus constituted by its remembered distilled...