Defending the Bounds of Cognition

Adams, Fred; Aizawa, Kenneth

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“…Adams and Aizawa criticize the argumentation that leads to HEC by pointing to the "coupling-constitution fallacy" [14][15][16][17], often also called causal-constitution fallacy [12]. The fallacy is committed when from the fact that some object or process is coupled in some way to cognitive agent, one slides to the conclusion that the object or process constitutes part of the agent's cognitive apparatus or cognitive processing.…”

Section: Coupling-constitution Fallacy and The Hypothesis Of Embeddedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, when the critics are concerned with the distinction between inner and outer, they are not really interested in the differences in material realization. Adams and Aizawa [14,15] point out that intracranial and transcranial processes are different with respect to the form of representations and their dynamics.…”

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“…Adams and Aizawa [14,15] diagnose that Clark and Chalmers commit the fallacy because they do not specify what makes a process a cognitive process rather than a non cognitive process. They argue that if one takes any sort of information processing as cognition, it is likely that cognitive processing will be crossing the brain, body and environment.…”

Section: Coupling-constitution Fallacy and The Hypothesis Of Embeddedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extended Cognition: Feedback Loops and Coupled Systems

Markič¹

2017

Interdiscip. Descr. Complex Syst.

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The article explores two waves of active externalism. I first introduce the distinction between passive and active externalism and analyse a proposal of active externalism based on the principle of parity proposed by Clark and Chalmers. There are two main obstacles, causal-constitution fallacy and cognitive bloat, that threaten the extended cognition hypothesis. The second wave of discussions based on the complementarity principle deals with cognitive systems with feedback loops between internal and external elements and is a more radical departure from functionalism and traditional thinking about cognition. I conclude with some remarks on potential ethical considerations of extended cognition.

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Section: Coupling-constitution Fallacy and The Hypothesis Of Embeddedmentioning

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Section: Two Ways Of Thinking About Hecmentioning

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Section: Coupling-constitution Fallacy and The Hypothesis Of Embeddedmentioning

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Markič¹

2017

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“…For a discussion of a series of similar though experiments evoking our intuitions regarding the idea of cognitive integration see (Pritchard 2010) and (Palermos 2011). 22 Adams & Aizawa (2001;2008 claim that the mark of the cognitive is the manipulation of representations with underived content, which is plausibly (at least for the time being) not a feature of any external process. Thus they avoid begging the question against externalism when they put forward the 'causal-constitution' fallacy.…”

Section: Hemc and Hecmentioning

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“…For more details on the debate on underived content as the mark of the cognitive, see (Clark 2008;, (Menary 2006), (Adams and Aizawa 2001;2008;, (Ross and Ladyman 2010).…”

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Loops, constitution, and cognitive extension

Palermos

2014

Cognitive Systems Research

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Abstract:The 'causal-constitution' fallacy, the 'cognitive bloat' worry, and the persisting theoretical confusion about the fundamental difference between the hypotheses of embedded (HEMC) and extended (HEC) cognition are three interrelated worries, whose common point-and the problem they accentuate-is the lack of a principled criterion of constitution. Attempting to address the 'causal-constitution' fallacy, mathematically oriented philosophers of mind have previously suggested that the presence of non-linear relations between the inner and the outer contributions is sufficient for cognitive extension. The abstract idea of non-linearity, however, can be easily misunderstood and has, in the past, led to incorrect and counterintuitive conclusions about what may count as part of one's overall cognitive system. In order to prevent any further mistakes I revisit dynamical systems theory to study the nature of the continuous mutual interactions that give rise to the aforementioned non-linear relations. Moreover, focusing on these interactions will allow us to provide two distinct arguments in support of the ontological postulation of extended cognitive systems, as well as an objective criterion of constitution. Accordingly, I put forward a version of HEC that treats continuous mutual interactions (and the resultant non-linear relations) not just as sufficient but also as necessary for cognitive extension. Such a qualified version of HEC may exclude certain alleged cases of cognitive extension where the agent does not mutually interact with his artifacts (e.g., shopping lists and directory services), but it is immune both to the 'causalconstitution' fallacy and the 'cognitive bloat' worry, and it can be sharply distinguished from HEMC.

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Processes, Relations, and Relational‐Developmental‐Systems

Overton

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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Any science, including developmental science, functions within a broad set of concepts that generally go unnoticed during day to day research activities. These background ideas constitute the conceptual framework or context within which day‐to‐day research activities operate. A conceptual framework that has until recently dominated virtually all of science has been termed the Cartesian‐Split‐Mechanistic scientific research paradigm. In a number of scientific fields, including developmental science the inadequacies of this paradigm have become crystal clear, and new data has increasingly been highlighting these inadequacies. In this chapter this research paradigm is compared and contrasted with a newly emerged alternative scientific research paradigm termed the Process‐Relational and Relational‐Developmental‐Systems paradigm. It has been said that science is taking a relational turn. This chapter explores the nature of this turn, and its implications for theory and methods, especially in developmental science.

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Defending the Bounds of Cognition

Cited by 150 publications

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Extended Cognition: Feedback Loops and Coupled Systems

Extended Cognition: Feedback Loops and Coupled Systems

Loops, constitution, and cognitive extension

Processes, Relations, and Relational‐Developmental‐Systems

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