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- Title
Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds and Spongy Brains.
- Authors
Kiverstein, Julian; Farina, Mirko
- Abstract
We offer an argument for the extended mind based on developmental considerations. We argue that our brains develop to function in partnership with cognitive resources located in our external environments. Through cultural upbringing we are trained to reliably use artefacts in problem solving. These artefacts then become factored into the cognitive routines our brains support. We take this argument to support second wave defences of the extended mind [Rowlands (1999); Menary (2007); Sutton (2010)]. We also argue that complementarity and functionalist defences of the extended mind aren't opposed, but that complementarity considerations can provide much needed and hitherto under exploited leverage in defending EMT.
- Subjects
NEURAL development; COGNITION; PROBLEM solving; EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind); SYNAPTIC pruning; SOCIALIZATION; FUNCTIONALISM (Psychology)
- Publication
Teorema, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 2, p35
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article