On 21.08.2012 21:44, Ben Goertzel wrote:
Andy Clark has covered the "Extended Mind" idea very thoroughly, in the cog sci domain ... his views and arguments are very well known in the AI community...
Although the brain is undoubtedly important rather than focusing exclusively upon the brain it might also be useful to apply a "selfish gene" type framing of the problem but from the standpoint of information and rates of interaction between information mediating systems. How and where does information come from? In what contexts is it created? How does it move? How much is preserved or destroyed? What is its structure in terms of automata theory?
From that point of view the issue of whether the information is passing through biological systems or other kinds of systems then seems less important, and the sorts of things which De Garis frets over have less relevance.
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