How do intelligent agents spawn and exploit integrated processing regimes spanning brain,
body, and world? The answer may lie in the ability of the biological brain to select actions …

Embodied cognition—the idea that mental states and processes should be understood in
relation to one's bodily constitution and interactions with the world—remains a controversial …

I discuss Clark's predictive processing/extended mind hybrid, diagnosing a problem: Clark's
hybrid suggests that, when we use them, we pay attention to mind-extending external …

Molyneux's problem asks whether a person blind from birth, upon gaining sight, could
immediately recognize and distinguish objects by sight alone that were previously known …

In this paper, by means of a novel use of insights from the literature on scientific modelling, I
will argue in favour of an instrumentalist approach to the models that are crucially involved in …

This paper's aim is twofold: on the one hand, to provide an overview of the state of the art of
some kind of Bayesian networks, ie Markov blankets (MB), focusing on their relationship with …

The extended mind thesis maintains that cognitive processes and systems can, on occasion,
stretch to include parts of the brain, body, and world. One outstanding puzzle facing this view …

The aim of this short paper is to present the connection between the cognitive framework of
predictive processing and active inference and existing implementation in AI tools, in order …

Abstract Recently, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein have argued that the extended consciousness
thesis, namely the claim that the material vehicles of consciousness extend beyond our …

Several philosophical debates in the philosophy of mind and of the cognitive sciences seem
to require the elaboration of a mark of the cognitive (MOC). Some proposals for individually …