New technologies as prosthesis of cognitive system
New technologies as prosthesis of cognitive system
Author(s): Anna SarosiekSubject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Special Branches of Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: prothesis; cognitive system; tools; extended mind
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show the way in which human cognitive system uses external prostheses. Currently developed technologies provide human beings with tools that change their way of functioning in the environment, their un‐ derstanding and the perspective from which they perceive the world. Modifying systems of thoughts, reasoning and modes of operation non‐biological prosthe‐ ses extend human cognitive system. A human being uses non‐biological inter‐ faces for processing information from the external world.
Journal: Semina Scientiarum
- Issue Year: 1/2016
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 64-76
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English