creators_name: Gershenson, C type: techreport datestamp: 2002-11-23 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:06 metadata_visibility: show title: Where is the problem of “Where is the mind?”? ispublished: unpub subjects: phil-mind full_text_status: public abstract: We propose that the discussions about “where the mind is” depend directly on the metaphysical preconception and definition of “mind”. If we see the mind from one perspective (individualist), it will be only in the brain, and if we see it from another (active externalist), it will be embedded in the body and extended into the world. The “whereabouts” of the mind depends on our 1 of mind. Therefore, we should not ask if the mind is somewhere, but if it is somehow. date: 2002-03 date_type: published institution: University of Sussex department: COGS refereed: TRUE referencetext: Adams, F. and K. Aizawa (2001). The Bounds of Cognition. Philosophical Psychology 14 (1), pp. 43-64. Butler, K. L. (1998). Cognitive Explanations. In Butler, K., Internal Affairs: Making Room for Psychosemantic Internalism. Kluwer. Chiel, H. J. and R. D. Beer (1997). The brain has a body: adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body, and environment. Trends in Neuroscience 20, pp. 553-557. Clark, A. (1997). Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again. MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Clark, A. and D. Chalmers (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis 58 (1), pp. 7-19. Gershenson, C. (2001). Comments to Neutrosophy. In Smarandache, F. (Ed.) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, Probability and Statistics, University of New Mexico. Gallup, NM. Gershenson, C. (2002). Complex Philosophy. Proceedings of the 1st Biennial Seminar on Philosophical, Methodological & Epistemological Implications of Complexity Theory. La Habana, Cuba. Haugeland, J. (1995). Mind Embodied and Embedded. Acta Philosophica Fennica, 58, pp. 233-267 Maturana, H. R. and F. J. Varela (1987). The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Shambhala. citation: Gershenson, C (2002) Where is the problem of “Where is the mind?”? [Departmental Technical Report] (Unpublished) document_url: http://cogprints.org/2620/1/PhilCogSci2-Mind-Essay.pdf