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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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Phenomenal Externalism Fred Dretske ("Phenomenal externalism,
or if meanings ain't in the head, where are qualia?", 1996) and the
Canadian philosopher Ted Honderich expanded phenomenalism. The
mind is not confined inside the skull, but it extends to include whatever tools
are used. Not only is there no boundary
between subject and object but, according to the US philosopher Andy Clark and
the Australian philosopher David Chalmers ("The Extended Mind",
1998), the subject leaks out into the object: my mind literally spreads to the
tools that i use in order to carry out my cognitive processes. Back to the beginning of the chapter "Mind and Matter" | Back to the index of all chapters |
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