A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Depth Perception, Mind, Extended Cognition
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The boundaries of the mind two standard replies: skin and skull: outside the body = outside the mind, words are not just in the head: externalism about meaning externalism about mind. Proposed third reply: active externalism: environment plays a role in driving cognitive processes. Arguments for extending cognition beyond skin and skull: Human tendency to lean heavily on environmental supports (e. g. rather than mentally rotate something, make the choice to rotate it visually) epistemic actions alter the world to aid and augment cognitive process. Epistemic actions link the human organism with an external entity coupled system. All components in the system play an active causal role, and jointly govern behaviour. Difference to passive external features is that active ones are in the loop" (part of the. If the external action is removed, the system"s behavioural competence drops behaviour) and not at the end of a long causal chain.
