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What is required for an affordance to be significant?
What is required for an affordance to be significant?
How does music challenge the skull/body barrier?
How does music challenge the skull/body barrier?
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?
How is access consciousness extended by the environment?
How is access consciousness extended by the environment?
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How does music contribute to extending phenomenal experiences?
How does music contribute to extending phenomenal experiences?
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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?
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How can video games extend access consciousness via conscious flexibility?
How can video games extend access consciousness via conscious flexibility?
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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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Explore the concept of the mind extending into the environment through affordances and contemporary examples. Discuss scepticism and apologia related to this idea. This text by Gabrielle Cashel delves into how the mind's capabilities are influenced by tools and the environment.