Evolving Enactivism: Ur-Intentionality – What’s it All About?

Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin: Evolving Enactivism / Intentionality / Philosophy of Mind
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In our previous instalment to this blog series, we alluded to a subtle but pivotal adjustment that our Radically Enactive account of Cognition, REC, recommends making to what, in analytic circles, is the standard conception of minds. The recommendation is that we conceive of the intentional and phenomenal aspects of …

Evolving Enactivism: An Introduction

Action / Cognition / Daniel Hutto and Erik Myin: Evolving Enactivism / Philosophy of Mind / reduction
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Thanks to John Schwenkler for inviting us to guest-blog this week about our new book Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017). It is often said that two minds are better than one. Though ‘mind’ is a count noun, we don’t imagine that people really have …

Consciousness is something you do

Attention / Consciousness / Mental Action / metaphysics of mind / Philosophy of Mind / Sebastian Watzl: Structuring Mind / Self-consciousness
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Many parents who look into the eyes of their newborn baby encounter something wonderful, and awe inspiring. There in those eyes they get a glimpse of a new perspective, a new point of view on the world. A new consciousness. The idea that consciousness is the subjective perspective we each …

How attention shapes consciousness

Attention / Consciousness / Intentionality / Phenomenology / Philosophy of Mind / Sebastian Watzl: Structuring Mind
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There is a subjective way you experience the world. This is way it is like for you to listen to Jazz, to look around curiously, or to taste dark chocolate. It is hard to know about what it is like for you to experience these things simply by observing your …

Earthworms, Google servers, and an important kind of freedom

Attention / Cognition / evolution / Intentionality / Mental Action / metaphysics of mind / Neuroscience; Philosophy of Science / perception / Psychology / Sebastian Watzl: Structuring Mind
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Yesterday, I sketched the priority structure framework: attention consists in the activity of regulating priority structures, which order the parts of the subject’s on-going mental life by their relative priority. Why would we organize our mind in this way? In other words, what is the function of attention?  The answer, …

Structures of the Mind

Action / Attention / Consciousness / metaphysics of mind / Philosophy of Mind / Psychology / Sebastian Watzl: Structuring Mind
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Yesterday, I suggested that we need a theory of attention that gives attention a central place in the mind and serves as a unified framework that integrates different approaches to attention, both in philosophy and in the empirical sciences. Today, I will sketch the priority structure framework and give some …

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