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Is there any literature discussing whether all conscious entities are separate, discrete experiencers or a single experiencer?
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I would like to know if there is any work discussing whether conscious entities (minds) are perceived by different "experiencers," arguably who we are. The other option as far as I know would be whether all consciousness is perceived by one "experiencer" that shifts from consciousness to consciousness and, in this sense, we are all the same person.
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I would like to know if there is any work discussing whether conscious entities (minds) are perceived by different "experiencers," arguably who we are. The other option as far as I know would be whether all consciousness is perceived by one "experiencer" that shifts from consciousness to consciousness and, in this sense, we are all the same person.
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You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
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I would like to know if there is any work discussing whether conscious entities (minds) are perceived by different "experiencers," arguably who we are. The other option as far as I know would be whether all consciousness is perceived by one "experiencer" that shifts from consciousness to consciousness and, in this sense, we are all the same person.
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I would like to know if there is any work discussing whether conscious entities (minds) are perceived by different "experiencers," arguably who we are. The other option as far as I know would be whether all consciousness is perceived by one "experiencer" that shifts from consciousness to consciousness and, in this sense, we are all the same person.
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You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
– PeterJ
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You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
– PeterJ
3 hours ago
You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
– PeterJ
3 hours ago
You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
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Mind continuous with environment
There is a considerable body of literature on 'the extended mind'. David Chalmers and Andy Clark are major names here. The basic idea is that 'the mind "extends" into the environment in cases in which a human organism and the environment become cognitively coupled systems' (Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590 : 589.)
In just a bit more detail :
The Extended Mind Hypothesis (EMH) made its public debut in the pages of Analysis
in 1988, with the appearance of a landmark paper by Clark and Chalmers. They
advanced the bold claim that some cognitive processing has an extent that is beyond
the boundaries of the skin or the skull. Their claim differs from the still much disputed
idea that the content of mental states must be individuated, at least in part, by external
factors. With a different focus, the originators of EMH defend active externalism - the
view which holds that the underlying cognitive processes that make certain mental
happenings possible are, at least sometimes, not entirely brainbound. This kind
of wide ranging cognition allegedly occurs when the use of external resources is
unavoidable for enabling the completion of specific cognitive tasks. (Daniel D. Hutto,
'The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2011), pp. 785-787 : 785.)
Mind continuous with other minds
This is a different line of thought, often referred to a 'distributed cognition'.
Ed Hutchins' (1995) analysis of navigation aboard navy ships is a locus
classicus for distributed cognition. Hutchins describes the process by which
a ship's navigation team calculates the position of the ship over time by
plotting a series of lines of position. The process involves several crewmen
who use instruments to determine the bearings of certain landmarks,
another who coordinates their work and records the bearings, and still
another who plots the bearings on a map and projects the ship's future
position. The first several crewmen are clearly involved in a computation
that they do not fully understand. Since the plotter chooses the next set of
landmarks, it may be tempting to see the rest of the system as a sort of
instrument that he uses to determine the position of the ship. Yet it would
be wrong to think that the things happening inside the mind of the plotter
are sufficient to reconstruct the process... (P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310 : 298;
Fisher, Kimball & Fisher, Mareen D., Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997, might also help here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Reading
Andy Clark and David Chalmers, 'The Extended Mind', Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 7-19.
Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590.
The Extended Mind, ed. R. Menary, ÃÂœIT Press, 2010 vii + 382.
P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
Kimball Fisher & Mareen D. Fisher, Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997.
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I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
add a comment |Â
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1 Answer
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Mind continuous with environment
There is a considerable body of literature on 'the extended mind'. David Chalmers and Andy Clark are major names here. The basic idea is that 'the mind "extends" into the environment in cases in which a human organism and the environment become cognitively coupled systems' (Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590 : 589.)
In just a bit more detail :
The Extended Mind Hypothesis (EMH) made its public debut in the pages of Analysis
in 1988, with the appearance of a landmark paper by Clark and Chalmers. They
advanced the bold claim that some cognitive processing has an extent that is beyond
the boundaries of the skin or the skull. Their claim differs from the still much disputed
idea that the content of mental states must be individuated, at least in part, by external
factors. With a different focus, the originators of EMH defend active externalism - the
view which holds that the underlying cognitive processes that make certain mental
happenings possible are, at least sometimes, not entirely brainbound. This kind
of wide ranging cognition allegedly occurs when the use of external resources is
unavoidable for enabling the completion of specific cognitive tasks. (Daniel D. Hutto,
'The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2011), pp. 785-787 : 785.)
Mind continuous with other minds
This is a different line of thought, often referred to a 'distributed cognition'.
Ed Hutchins' (1995) analysis of navigation aboard navy ships is a locus
classicus for distributed cognition. Hutchins describes the process by which
a ship's navigation team calculates the position of the ship over time by
plotting a series of lines of position. The process involves several crewmen
who use instruments to determine the bearings of certain landmarks,
another who coordinates their work and records the bearings, and still
another who plots the bearings on a map and projects the ship's future
position. The first several crewmen are clearly involved in a computation
that they do not fully understand. Since the plotter chooses the next set of
landmarks, it may be tempting to see the rest of the system as a sort of
instrument that he uses to determine the position of the ship. Yet it would
be wrong to think that the things happening inside the mind of the plotter
are sufficient to reconstruct the process... (P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310 : 298;
Fisher, Kimball & Fisher, Mareen D., Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997, might also help here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Reading
Andy Clark and David Chalmers, 'The Extended Mind', Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 7-19.
Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590.
The Extended Mind, ed. R. Menary, ÃÂœIT Press, 2010 vii + 382.
P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
Kimball Fisher & Mareen D. Fisher, Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997.
answered 2 hours ago
Geoffrey Thomas
18.5k21472
I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
add a comment |Â
up vote
4
down vote
Mind continuous with environment
There is a considerable body of literature on 'the extended mind'. David Chalmers and Andy Clark are major names here. The basic idea is that 'the mind "extends" into the environment in cases in which a human organism and the environment become cognitively coupled systems' (Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590 : 589.)
In just a bit more detail :
The Extended Mind Hypothesis (EMH) made its public debut in the pages of Analysis
in 1988, with the appearance of a landmark paper by Clark and Chalmers. They
advanced the bold claim that some cognitive processing has an extent that is beyond
the boundaries of the skin or the skull. Their claim differs from the still much disputed
idea that the content of mental states must be individuated, at least in part, by external
factors. With a different focus, the originators of EMH defend active externalism - the
view which holds that the underlying cognitive processes that make certain mental
happenings possible are, at least sometimes, not entirely brainbound. This kind
of wide ranging cognition allegedly occurs when the use of external resources is
unavoidable for enabling the completion of specific cognitive tasks. (Daniel D. Hutto,
'The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2011), pp. 785-787 : 785.)
Mind continuous with other minds
This is a different line of thought, often referred to a 'distributed cognition'.
Ed Hutchins' (1995) analysis of navigation aboard navy ships is a locus
classicus for distributed cognition. Hutchins describes the process by which
a ship's navigation team calculates the position of the ship over time by
plotting a series of lines of position. The process involves several crewmen
who use instruments to determine the bearings of certain landmarks,
another who coordinates their work and records the bearings, and still
another who plots the bearings on a map and projects the ship's future
position. The first several crewmen are clearly involved in a computation
that they do not fully understand. Since the plotter chooses the next set of
landmarks, it may be tempting to see the rest of the system as a sort of
instrument that he uses to determine the position of the ship. Yet it would
be wrong to think that the things happening inside the mind of the plotter
are sufficient to reconstruct the process... (P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310 : 298;
Fisher, Kimball & Fisher, Mareen D., Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997, might also help here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Reading
Andy Clark and David Chalmers, 'The Extended Mind', Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 7-19.
Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590.
The Extended Mind, ed. R. Menary, ÃÂœIT Press, 2010 vii + 382.
P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
Kimball Fisher & Mareen D. Fisher, Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997.
answered 2 hours ago
Geoffrey Thomas
18.5k21472
I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
add a comment |Â
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4
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up vote
4
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Mind continuous with environment
There is a considerable body of literature on 'the extended mind'. David Chalmers and Andy Clark are major names here. The basic idea is that 'the mind "extends" into the environment in cases in which a human organism and the environment become cognitively coupled systems' (Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590 : 589.)
In just a bit more detail :
The Extended Mind Hypothesis (EMH) made its public debut in the pages of Analysis
in 1988, with the appearance of a landmark paper by Clark and Chalmers. They
advanced the bold claim that some cognitive processing has an extent that is beyond
the boundaries of the skin or the skull. Their claim differs from the still much disputed
idea that the content of mental states must be individuated, at least in part, by external
factors. With a different focus, the originators of EMH defend active externalism - the
view which holds that the underlying cognitive processes that make certain mental
happenings possible are, at least sometimes, not entirely brainbound. This kind
of wide ranging cognition allegedly occurs when the use of external resources is
unavoidable for enabling the completion of specific cognitive tasks. (Daniel D. Hutto,
'The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2011), pp. 785-787 : 785.)
Mind continuous with other minds
This is a different line of thought, often referred to a 'distributed cognition'.
Ed Hutchins' (1995) analysis of navigation aboard navy ships is a locus
classicus for distributed cognition. Hutchins describes the process by which
a ship's navigation team calculates the position of the ship over time by
plotting a series of lines of position. The process involves several crewmen
who use instruments to determine the bearings of certain landmarks,
another who coordinates their work and records the bearings, and still
another who plots the bearings on a map and projects the ship's future
position. The first several crewmen are clearly involved in a computation
that they do not fully understand. Since the plotter chooses the next set of
landmarks, it may be tempting to see the rest of the system as a sort of
instrument that he uses to determine the position of the ship. Yet it would
be wrong to think that the things happening inside the mind of the plotter
are sufficient to reconstruct the process... (P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310 : 298;
Fisher, Kimball & Fisher, Mareen D., Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997, might also help here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Reading
Andy Clark and David Chalmers, 'The Extended Mind', Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 7-19.
Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590.
The Extended Mind, ed. R. Menary, ÃÂœIT Press, 2010 vii + 382.
P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
Kimball Fisher & Mareen D. Fisher, Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997.
answered 2 hours ago
Geoffrey Thomas
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Mind continuous with environment
There is a considerable body of literature on 'the extended mind'. David Chalmers and Andy Clark are major names here. The basic idea is that 'the mind "extends" into the environment in cases in which a human organism and the environment become cognitively coupled systems' (Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590 : 589.)
In just a bit more detail :
The Extended Mind Hypothesis (EMH) made its public debut in the pages of Analysis
in 1988, with the appearance of a landmark paper by Clark and Chalmers. They
advanced the bold claim that some cognitive processing has an extent that is beyond
the boundaries of the skin or the skull. Their claim differs from the still much disputed
idea that the content of mental states must be individuated, at least in part, by external
factors. With a different focus, the originators of EMH defend active externalism - the
view which holds that the underlying cognitive processes that make certain mental
happenings possible are, at least sometimes, not entirely brainbound. This kind
of wide ranging cognition allegedly occurs when the use of external resources is
unavoidable for enabling the completion of specific cognitive tasks. (Daniel D. Hutto,
'The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Analysis, Vol. 71, No. 4 (OCTOBER 2011), pp. 785-787 : 785.)
Mind continuous with other minds
This is a different line of thought, often referred to a 'distributed cognition'.
Ed Hutchins' (1995) analysis of navigation aboard navy ships is a locus
classicus for distributed cognition. Hutchins describes the process by which
a ship's navigation team calculates the position of the ship over time by
plotting a series of lines of position. The process involves several crewmen
who use instruments to determine the bearings of certain landmarks,
another who coordinates their work and records the bearings, and still
another who plots the bearings on a map and projects the ship's future
position. The first several crewmen are clearly involved in a computation
that they do not fully understand. Since the plotter chooses the next set of
landmarks, it may be tempting to see the rest of the system as a sort of
instrument that he uses to determine the position of the ship. Yet it would
be wrong to think that the things happening inside the mind of the plotter
are sufficient to reconstruct the process... (P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310 : 298;
Fisher, Kimball & Fisher, Mareen D., Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997, might also help here.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Reading
Andy Clark and David Chalmers, 'The Extended Mind', Analysis, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Jan., 1998), pp. 7-19.
Erik Myin, 'Unbounding the Mind', ' The Extended Mind by Richard Menary', Science, New Series, Vol. 330, No. 6004 (29 October 2010), pp. 589-590.
The Extended Mind, ed. R. Menary, ÃÂœIT Press, 2010 vii + 382.
P. D. Magnus, 'Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science', Social Studies of Science, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Apr., 2007), pp. 297-310.
Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild, Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1995.
Kimball Fisher & Mareen D. Fisher, Distributed Minds, ISBN 10: 0814403670 / ISBN 13: 9780814403679. Published by Amacom, 1997.
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I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
add a comment |Â
I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
I would also add Bernardo Kastrup's name to the mix, as a (supposedly) critic of Chalmers but still pushes an idealistic view.
– Yechiam Weiss
10 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
Also Chalmers' "Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem" lays out some basic views in the field, which would be a good reference.
– Yechiam Weiss
6 mins ago
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You could try the literature of mysticism as this promotes a view similar to your 'one person' idea.
– PeterJ
3 hours ago