Document type
Book chapters
Title
The Mind Technology Problem and the Deep History of Mind Design
Participants in the publication
Robert W. Clowes (Author)
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS E HUMANAS DA UNL
Klaus Gärtner (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
Inês Hipólito (Author)
Summary
We are living through a new phase in human development where much of everyday life – at least in the most technologically developed parts of the world – has come to depend upon our interaction with “smart” artefacts. Alongside this increasing adoption and ever-deepening reliance on intelligent machines, important changes have been taking place, often in the background, as to how we think of ourselves and how we conceptualize our relationship with technology. As we design, create and learn to live with a new order of artefacts which exhibit behavior that, were it to be carried out by human beings would be seen as intelligent, the ways in which we conceptualize intelligence, minds, reasoning and related notions such as self and agency are undergoing profound shifts. We argue that the basic background assumptions informing our concepts of mind, and the underlying conceptual scheme structuring our reasoning about minds has recently been transformed in the process. This shift has changed the nature and quality of both our folk understanding of mind, our scientific psychology, and the philosophical problems that the interaction of these realms produce. Many of the traditional problems in the philosophy of mind have become reconfigured in the process. This introduction sets the scene for our book that treats this reconfiguration of our concepts of mind and of technology, and the new casting of philosophical problems this reconfiguration engenders.
Where published
The Mind-Technology Problem,Studies in Brain and Mind
Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 1573-4536
Address
Switzerland
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Number of pages
45
Starting page
1
Last page
45
Document Identifiers
DOI -
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72644-7_1
URL -
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72644-7_1