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What is required for an affordance to be significant?
What is required for an affordance to be significant?
- causal relevance.
- reliability, credibility and durability. (correct)
- action possibilities.
- Access to all web files.
How does music challenge the skull/body barrier?
How does music challenge the skull/body barrier?
- There was a challenge to the barrier?
- We form ourself through social articulation with other's, and have minimal difficulties distinguishing ourselves from them. So the indirect social articulation of music should be no different. (correct)
- The critique is irrelevant because everything is causally and constitutively relevant.
- The challenge is how can sound waves allow aliens to communicate with us and take control over our autonomy.
What is the connection between the abacus and the Archimedes, as discussed in the passage?
What is the connection between the abacus and the Archimedes, as discussed in the passage?
- The abacus and stomachion are both early computing devices.
- The abacus and stomachion are both examples of stone tools.
- The evolution of cognition.
- Examples of historical affordances that extended innovation. (correct)
How is access consciousness extended by the environment?
How is access consciousness extended by the environment?
How does music contribute to extending phenomenal experiences?
How does music contribute to extending phenomenal experiences?
What is the potential issue related to the core of the skull/body barrier critique?
What is the potential issue related to the core of the skull/body barrier critique?
How can video games extend access consciousness via conscious flexibility?
How can video games extend access consciousness via conscious flexibility?
What is the main argument presented in the passage about the mind extending into the environment?
What is the main argument presented in the passage about the mind extending into the environment?
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Study Notes
The Extended Mind
- The mind extends from the skull via affordances (using tools) within the environment.
- Access consciousness is extended by interconnected processes improving cognitive flexibility.
- Phenomenal consciousness is extended by somatic processes elevating 'what it feels like'.
Evolution of Affordances
- Acheulean (tool industry) up to 1.5mya.
- Hand-Abacus, 500BCE.
- Archimedes box, a dissection puzzle, 287BCE.
Cognitive Flexibility and Video Games
- Cognitive flexibility is extended by some video games.
- Strategy, spatial awareness, attention, and multitasking are improved.
- Memory is also enhanced.
Music and Phenomenal Experiences
- Music amplifies and shapes our internal states and external representation in/of the world.
- Music is a tool for offloading, processing, and expressing emotions and 'what it feels like' to be.
- Edwards et al. (2015) concluded that music enhances emotional attunement, introspection, and intersubjective connectivity.
Ambiguity of Extended Mind
- The skull barrier raises the question of where the boundary lies.
- If everything is an affordance, then nothing can be.
Cognitive Overload / Skull Barrier
- Not every affordance is statistically significant.
- Access to all web files discounts the credibility and trust that affordances require to be a constitute.
- This critic misrepresents the truth of extended minds.
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