A prominent view on personal identity over time, Jeff McMahan’s ‘Embodied Mind Account’ (2002) holds that we cease to exist only once our brains can no longer sustain the basic capacity uphold consciousness. One of many implications this persistence is continue throughout even most severe cases dementia, until consciousness irreversibly shuts down. In paper, I argue that, while convincing accou...

Creative insight (CI) has been extensively investigated in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, which is defined as the process in which impasses the solver encountered are broken by restructuring and then leads to a peculiar experience accompanying the sudden solution. Numerous studies have greatly extended our knowledge concerning neurocognitive mechanism of CI, and offered robust supports ...

I found Thompson’s recasting of the sciences and philosophy of mind to be timely, wide-ranging, and accessible, as audacious as it is meticulous. The author repeatedly confronts the Cartesian split between mind and body, as it appears in various guises, in various literatures. Each time he works through it by integrating methods and findings from more sources than cognitive science or, I take i...

In the last decade, embodiment has dramatically influenced our conception of cognition. In this new frame, episodic memory, and particularly memory decline have been reinterpreted. Interventions supporting memory in the aging population address the connection between mind and body. Here, we discuss the use of Virtual Reality (VR) as an innovative tool to support episodic memory in older adults....

thought (pp. 203–222). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Gentner, D., & Imai, M. (1992). Is the future always ahead? Evidence for system-mappings in under-standing space-time metaphors. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Sci-ence Society (pp. 510–515). Gentner, D., Imai, M., & Boroditsky, L. (2002). As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in process-ing space > ...

Abstract The main aim of this article is to offer a systematic reconstruction Husserl’s theory minimal mind and his ideas pertaining the lowest level consciousness in living beings. In context, term ‘minimal mind’ refers mental sphere capacities simplest conceivable subject. This topic significant contemporary interest for philosophy empirical research into origins consciousness. I contend that...

1. Introduction The ways in which the (human) body shapes meaning and thought, and the various roles it plays in communication, have received a great deal of attention during the last few decades. However, behind the slogan-like notion of the " embodied mind " lie a plethora of different concepts and theoretical frameworks, and the extent to which they are mutually compatible remains unclear (c...

Our goal in this paper is to establish a means for a dialogue platform to be able to cope with open domains considering the possible interaction between the embodied agent and humans. To this end we present an algorithm capable of processing natural language utterances and validate them against knowledge structures of an intelligent agent’s mind. Our algorithm leverages dialogue techniques in o...