I am very much convinced by Bruineberg and Fabry’s idea that we can engage in episodes of extended mind-wandering, i.e. episodes of mind-wandering that are partly constituted by our interactions with certain artifacts. I have also felt compelled by their project, and agree with their call to investigate task-unrelated and …
Jelle Bruineberg and Regina E. Fabry (BF) start their paper on extended mind-wandering by denouncing two insidious biases in extended mind research: The harmony bias and the cognitive task bias. Steering clear of these biases means acknowledging that a) not all technology use is cognitively enhancing and b) not all human activity is …
Have you ever scrolled through a social media feed on your smartphone without a particular purpose or goal? Were you trying to focus on something else, like listening to a talk, or did you have a few moments to spare, such as when waiting for a train? Did you initiate …
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country The argument for why empathy makes us less, not more, impartial, biased, or objective is simple once the groundwork has been laid. It proceeds in three steps. One: the way that each one of us thinks about the world …
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country Given the differences I discussed in my last post between how we regard others and ourselves pre-reflectively (reflectively we understand that others are agents just like us, of course), it should not be surprising that adopting a perspective that …
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country In my last post, I talked in general ways about how the creatures that we are determines our pre-reflective way of thinking about the world. We represent things as occurring in time and space as Immanuel Kant observed, for …
Heidi Maibom, University of Cincinnati and University of the Basque Country Terminology: A first-person perspective contains three sub-perspectives: an agent perspective (how we view ourselves, our own actions, and what happens to us), an observer perspective (how we view others, their actions, and what happens to them), and an interactor …
