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From Embodied and Extended Mind to No Mind

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Cognitive Behavioural Systems

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The paper will discuss the extended mind thesis with a view to the notions of “agent” and of “mind”, while helping to clarify the relation between “embodiment” and the “extended mind”. I will suggest that the extended mind thesis constitutes a reductio ad absurdum of the notion of ‘mind’; the consequence of the extended mind debate should be to drop the notion of the mind altogether – rather than entering the discussion how extended it is.

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  1. Anatolia College/ACT, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

  2. Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, University of Oxford, UK

    Vincent C. Müller

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  1. Department of Psychology, and IIASS, Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, sezione di Napoli Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy

    Antonietta M. Esposito

  3. School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

    Alessandro Vinciarelli

  4. Laboratory of Acoustics and Speech Communication, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Rüdiger Hoffmann

  5. Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Anatolia College/ACT, P.O. Box 21021, 55510, Pylaia, Greece

    Vincent C. Müller

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Müller, V.C. (2012). From Embodied and Extended Mind to No Mind. In: Esposito, A., Esposito, A.M., Vinciarelli, A., Hoffmann, R., Müller, V.C. (eds) Cognitive Behavioural Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34584-5_26

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