Embraining Culture: Leaky Minds and Spongy Brains

作者：Kiverstein Julian^*; Farina Mirko

来源：Teorema, 2011, 30(2): 35-53.

• Parity Principle
• Extended Functionalism
• Martian Intuition
• Cognitive Bloat
• Complementarity
• Synaptic Pruning
• Enculturation
• Cognitive Dovetailing

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.

• 出版日期2011