Perspectivas evolutivas sobre la cognición. El compromiso de la hipótesis de la “mente extendida” con un enfoque biológico evolutivo

• Audisio, Irene ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

     Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

     Argentina

     
• Localización: Ludus vitalis: revista de filosofía de las ciencias de la vida = journal of philosophy of life sciences = revue de philosophie des sciences de la vie, ISSN 1133-5165, Vol. 25, Nº. 47, 2017, págs. 141-154
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  • Evolutionary perspectives on cognition. The compromise of the “extended mind” hypothesis with an evolutionary view.In this paper I focus on the scopes and limitations of the extended cognition’s compromise with an evolutionary theory. I evaluate whether the incorporation of such theory for the explanation of cognition provides significant advantages and, if such is the case, how so. First, I consider what implies to be an extended mind and what constitute its boundaries. At this point, I refer to embedded cognition as an assumption of the aforementioned hypothesis, as well as the debate on the limits of extension. Next, I evaluate to what point this extended mind hypothesis involves a compromise with certain links between organism and environment—links dependent on an evolutionary theory—constitutive of the extended mind approach. I thus concentrate on two mains issues of the extended hypothesis: the notion of “representation” as an adaptive action, and the assumption of the term “niche” within the frame of its cognition model.