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TEDxSydney - David Chalmers - The Extended Mind
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Uploaded on Jun 11, 2011
David Chalmers is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.
Chalmers is interested in the relationship between mind, brain and reality. He is best known for formulating the "hard problem" of consciousness and for his arguments against materialism.
His 1996 book The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory was highly successful with both popular and academic audiences. In 2010 he gave the John Locke Lectures at the University of Oxford. These will shortly be published as his book Constructing the World . He also works on language, metaphysics, and artificial intelligence.
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Orsum Maate 11 months ago
Fuck iPhones.
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ichiboku1 1 year ago
mind is already an obscure term. I don't think chalmers or andy clark are making it anymore obscure. The point is, once a coupled system has become established (as in the case of a poised notebook) the competency of the system deteriorates once the external factor is eliminated.
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Joseph Tafra 1 month ago
Drone strikes would be an example of using the extended mind/body for evil. Sadly, with the way the world is organised that kind of use will probably be common
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chi4cordas 1 month ago
i find particulary amusing when he says the they have "formulated this theory in late 90´s"..
Wouldn´t it mean that he is unaware of the vast body of literature on the issue, that extends (at least) from Plato´s Prometheus to, for instance, B.Stiegler´s recent revival of the notion of hypomnemata (which includes a pharmacological dimension of the problem, thus, offering a critical perspective on the issue, just like Canguillem, Mcluhan, Derrida, Leroy-Gourhan, etc, once did..)?...
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miesjeweet 1 month ago
google glass anyone?
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TemplarX2 2 months ago
iPhone user. Yuck.
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Justin Hitt 2 months ago
So it is for the extended soul? I am you, you are I, in a different shade of the One reflection?
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Brandon Lisik 2 months ago
lol, you're silly.
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Simon Matthews 3 months ago
David Chalmers should ask his Executive Decision Maker if he needs a haircut and a shave. Just kidding :-)
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Simon Matthews 3 months ago
Why didn't my Ad Blocker block this ad for iPhone?
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graysoncornwell 3 months ago
I feel like technology is a snapshot of your mind when its organized. Your mind is the accumulation of experiences but we're like badly organized computers where control+f doesn't find what we're looking for. For iphones and notebooks to be considered a true extension and integral part of our mind the information stored within them must be accessible by means other than using our external senses. Basically, instead of reading back your thoughts on paper, the device would respond to thought.
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Shonna Williams 3 months ago
Thank you for including a philosophical sociological view. Yes, technology is definitely an extension to our actions and thoughts. It's miraculous, it really is!
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