Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head
Mind October 1, 2009 DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzp110 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 165 |
| Key points | Argues that arguments for extended cognition fail to generalize to an extended conscious mind, concluding that the case for consciousness extending beyond the brain is flawed. |
Abstract
Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with Clark and Chalmers’s (1998) claims concerning ‘the extended mind’) ‘the extended conscious mind’. In this article, I review a variety of arguments for the extended conscious mind, and find them flawed. Arguments for extended cognition, I conclude, do not generalize to arguments for an extended conscious mind.
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