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Embodied Minds in Action (Hardcover)
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Embodied Minds in Action (Hardcover)
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In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work
out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical
problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation,
and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two
basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like
ours are essentially embodied. This entails that our minds are
necessarily spread throughout our living, organismic bodies and
belong to their complete neurobiological constitution. So minds
like ours are necessarily alive. The second claim is that
essentially embodied minds are self-organizing thermodynamic
systems. This entails that our mental lives consist in the
possibility and actuality of moving our own living organismic
bodies through space and time, by means of our conscious desires.
The upshot is that we are essentially minded animals who help to
create the natural world through our own agency. This doctrine--the
Essential Embodiment Theory--is a truly radical idea which subverts
the traditionally opposed and seemingly exhaustive categories of
Dualism and Materialism, and offers a new paradigm for contemporary
mainstream research in the philosophy of mind and cognitive
neuroscience.
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