Abstract In this article, I respond to commentaries by Eva Jablonka and Simona Ginsburg David Spurrett on my target article “Complexity the Evolution of Consciousness,” in which have offered first extended articulation pathological complexity thesis as a hypothesis about evolutionary origins function consciousness. My reply is structured arguments raised rather than author will offer more detai...

A method to obtain accurate hand gesture classification and fingertip localization from depth images is proposed. The Oriented Radial Distribution feature is utilized, exploiting its ability to globally describe hand poses, but also to locally detect likely fingertip positions. Hence, hand gesture and fingertip locations are characterized with a single feature calculation. We propose to divide ...

The extended mind thesis (in brief, EMT) does not reserve a position for inner representations, which certainly play a substantive role in the making of human mind, however. It is, as a consequence, hard to conceive of perception as extended. The present paper, as a complement to EMT, argues that perceptual processes are extended, and so is perceptual content. The argument proceeds with three r...