David Chalmers – What is Extended Mind?

23 thoughts on “David Chalmers – What is Extended Mind?”

1. There's only one consciousness ( God ) that all created men are connected to so of course our minds are extended. The visible brain is an illusion that is formed when observed within our individual mind but it's not necessary to have a visible brain to experience life.

2. There's only one consciousness ( God ) that all created men are connected to so of course our minds are extended. The visible brain is an illusion that is formed when observed within our individual mind but it's not necessary to have a visible brain to experience life.

3. Damn David surely looks old…

4. He probably draw this extended mind concept from Dawkins meme concept.he is a imitator.

5. If you had been brought up by wolves, you & your cognitive skills would have been very different. Your thinking & your behaviour would be more 'wolf' like.

6. This views seems like pandering to the new and hip. Is an artificial leg an extended body? I'm quite disappointed in this conversation. I expected more. What does Robin Collins think?

7. "Taking away his cellphone is assault" that's a bit far fetch isn't it? In this case taking anything from the outside world is an assault. I may not remember a person until I see that person again… Is that person (or place or object or idea or about anything else) an extension of my mind? What are we talking about here?

8. The Extended Phenotype, Dawkins 1982

9. like a calculator is an extension of your brain …

10. Sounds more like extended bullshit

11. Anyone interested in this should read Bernard Steigler's Technics and Time. He puts the idea of technology as prosthetic into a deep philosophical context. If you are not interested in trying to parse that language there is a film that has been uploaded here called The Ister, it is the same philosophy told by Steigler through the story of the fall of Epimetheius.

12. "Extended mind"? External cognition has been discussed in HCI since the 90s… Literally nothing in this video is original: http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/External_cognition

13. I can put the products / sums of my consciousness on paper or device but not my consciousness. ie what I produce and think about takes shape so it's tangible & transferable
    -consciousness feels separate to the product, not so much separate, the source of the product, a gentle background wobble that's in great silent contrast with the vibrations it produces.
    …A billowing stillness that permeates space, the device, & the memorizables etched in them. Abstract interpretation but as best as I can do

14. Yes, our mind stores memory (phone number) in the unconscious and also references that same data via a storage device (phone). Not a good example, it is very physics orientated and not biological or experiential. What is sad about this interview, is the reference to dead knowledge and how it is stored externally (such as numbers). The interesting stuff is in the embodied, coupled meaning making that can be reactivated when connected to idea, place, space, object and orientation to intention.

15. Looks like he stopped developing when he was a high school junior in 1983.

16. Youtube is a platform for interesting ideas expressed in conversation. This one is a total fail.

17. test the person with the phone!

18. Modern, La La Liberal 'Scientists' (loopy philosophers more like) have been redefining reality for over a century… Sci-woo… pseudo-science… The Extended Mind is just a made up load of BS… The Extended Brain is almost upon us though, Cyber People…

19. A prime example of why philosophy is ridiculed and labeled as "pointless".

20. everything you memorize becomes a lesson, and a tool, a step stone, or a challenge that makes you stronger mentally. if we don't use our mind to memorize and learn new things, on a broad spectrum, then we will just have weaker minds.

21. so much… reaching….

22. CO-CONSPIRATORS.

23. I think we’re well into bullshit territory here

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