Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head

Andrew Clark

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Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include the goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with Clark and Chalmers’s (1998) claims concerning ‘the extended mind’) ‘the extended conscious mind’. In this article, I review a variety of arguments for the extended conscious mind, and find them flawed. Arguments for extended cognition, I conclude, do not generalize to arguments for an extended conscious mind.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)963-993
Number of pages30
JournalMind
Volume118
Issue number472
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2009

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    This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Mind following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Clark, A. 1 (2009) "Spreading the Joy? Why the Machinery of Consciousness is (Probably) Still in the Head", Mind 118 (472) p. 963-993, is available online at: http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/118/472/963

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