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  • Distributed Cognition, Neuroprostheses and their Implications to Non-Physicalist Theories of Mind Gové, Jean 2021 Forum Philosophicum , Vol. 26 , Issue 1 , S. 123 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 1426-1898 | 2353-7043 10.35765/forphil.2021.2601.08 Abstract

    This paper investigates the notion of “distributed cognition”—the idea that entities external to one’s organic brain participate in one’s overall cognitive functioning—and the challenges it poses to the notion of personhood. Related to this is also a consideration of the ever-increasing ways in which neuroprostheses replace and functionally replicate organic parts of the brain. However, the litera­ture surrounding such issues has tended to take an almost exclusively physicalist approach. The common assumption is that, given that non-physicalist theories (chiefly, dualism, and hylomorphism) postulate some form of immaterial “soul,” then they are immune from the challenges that these advances in cognitive science pose. The first aim of this paper, therefore, is to argue that this is not the case. The second aim of this paper is to attempt to elucidate a route available for non-physicalists that will allow them to accept the notion of distributed cognition. By appealing to an Aristotelian framework, I propose that non-physicalists can accept the notion of distributed cognition by appealing to the notion of “unitary life” which I introduce, as well as to Aristotle’s dichotomy between active and passive mind.

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    Catholic Tradition | Philosophy and Religion

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