In this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body and the social, material and cultural world. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein offer a state of the art tour of current arguments for and against extended consciousness. They aim to persuade you that it is possible to develop and defend the thesis of extended consciousness through the increasingly influential predictive processing theory developed in cognitive neuroscience. They show how predictive processing can be given a new reading as part of a third-wave account of the extended mind.
The third-wave claims that the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard-won, and always open to negotiation. It calls into question any separation of the biological from the social and cultural when thinking about the boundaries of the mind. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein show how this account of the mind finds support in predictive processing leading them to a view of phenomenal consciousness as partially realised by patterns of cultural practice.

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Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Routledge Focus on Philosophy, First published 2019, London, © 2019

Routledge focus on philosophy, London ; New York, NY, 2019

Routledge focus on philosophy, Abingdon, Oxon, 2019

Taylor & Francis (Unlimited), New York, 2019

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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Contents 6
Boxes, figures, and tables 9
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 14
1 The extended mind- Three waves 19
2 From extended mind to extended consciousness? 38
3 Extended dynamic singularities – models, processes, and recycling 58
4 Flexible and open-ended boundaries – Markov blankets of Markov blankets 75
5 Expectation and experience -A role for cultural practice in precision estimation 95
6 Extended diachronic constitution, predictive processing, and conscious experience 115
Concluding remarks 129
Bibliography 131
Index 144

The idea that the mind is extended and embedded in the world is one the biggest and most exciting areas of research in philosophy and cognitive science in recent years.

2019-06-15