Extending the extended self: a mediational-constitutional proposal.
This paper explores the mediational and constitutional role of technical images (both analogue and digital) for the definition and continuity of the sense of self, proposing a new framework within the extended mind theory grounded in recent approaches to memory. Traditional cognitive science often v...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 3; pp. 1 - 24 |
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