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- Title
The Spread Mind: Is Consciousness Situated?
- Authors
Manzotti, Riccardo
- Abstract
If phenomenal experience is a physical phenomenon, it must occur at some spatial and temporal location. Can consciousness be situated in such a strong sense? Although the importance of embodiment and situatedness is often mentioned, most neuroscientists and philosophers alike consider phenomenal experience as an outcome of neural activity. In this paper, the question I would raise is whether the physical underpinnings of conscious experience may be identical with processes temporally and spatially extended beyond the boundary of the skull and the skin. The resulting model of situated consciousness is dubbed the Spread Mind. The hypothesis is verifiable empirically. The model outlines a form of vehicle phenomenal externalism more radical than Clark's extended mind or Dretske's content phenomenal externalism.
- Subjects
CONSCIOUSNESS; NEUROSCIENCES; PHILOSOPHY &; cognitive science; EXTERNALISM (Philosophy of mind); COGNITION; PHENOMENALISM
- Publication
Teorema, 2011, Vol 30, Issue 2, p55
- ISSN
0210-1602
- Publication type
Article