Embodied Minds Evolving

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“Embodied Minds Evolving: From Animals to AI brings an impressive group of contributors to bear on a fundamental question: how should we understand minds once their embodied and evolutionary roots are properly recognised? Examining questions about animal cognition, consciousness, welfare and the prospects for artificial intelligence, this timely collection explores the continuities and differences between forms of mindedness, challenges entrenched anthropocentric assumptions, and, crucially, reveals the limitations of mainstream conceptions of mind and cognition that focus too exclusively on their assumed information-processing character.”
—Daniel D. Hutto, University of Wollongong, Australia

“In seeking to build artificial intelligence that fits comfortably and ethically into human lives, an obvious, but not often attempted, starting point is the natural intelligence that evolution has built over many eons in many and varied forms. Herein lie some interesting suggestions.”
—Michael Tomasello, Duke University, USA;  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

This volume brings together leading scholars in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, animal studies, and artificial intelligence to explore how recent developments in embodied and enactive approaches to cognition are reshaping our understanding of minds both natural and artificial. Challenging traditional cognitivist and anthropocentric assumptions, the contributors examine the continuities and differences between human, nonhuman animal, and artificial forms of cognition, consciousness, and agency. Collectively, the chapters argue that questions about mind cannot be fully understood through exclusively human-centered frameworks and that insights from animal cognition and embodiment are increasingly important for contemporary debates about artificial intelligence. The volume offers an interdisciplinary contribution to ongoing discussions about the future of cognition, consciousness, and intelligent systems.

Zdravko Radman is a former Senior Research Fellow (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb) and a full professor of philosophy. His recent publications include: Before Consciousness: In Search of the Fundamentals of Mind, (2017); The Hand, an Organ of the Mind: What the Manual Tells the Mental, (2013); Knowing without Thinking: Mind, Action, Cognition, and the Phenomenon of the Background, (2012).

This volume brings together leading scholars in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, animal studies, and artificial intelligence to explore how recent developments in embodied and enactive approaches to cognition are reshaping our understanding of minds both natural and artificial. Challenging traditional cognitivist and anthropocentric assumptions, the contributors examine the continuities and differences between human, nonhuman animal, and artificial forms of cognition, consciousness, and agency. Collectively, the chapters argue that questions about mind cannot be fully understood through exclusively human-centered frameworks and that insights from animal cognition and embodiment are increasingly important for contemporary debates about artificial intelligence. The volume offers an interdisciplinary contribution to ongoing discussions about the future of cognition, consciousness, and intelligent systems.

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“Embodied Minds Evolving: From Animals to AI brings an impressive group of contributors to bear on a fundamental question: how should we understand minds once their embodied and evolutionary roots are properly recognised? Examining questions about animal cognition, consciousness, welfare and the prospects for artificial intelligence, this timely collection explores the continuities and differences between forms of mindedness, challenges entrenched anthropocentric assumptions, and, crucially, reveals the limitations of mainstream conceptions of mind and cognition that focus too exclusively on their assumed information-processing character.” (Daniel D. Hutto, author of “Folk Psychological Narratives: The Sociocultural Basis for  Understanding Reasons” (Bradford Books, 2007) and (together with Erik Myin) “Evolving Enactivism: Basic Minds Meet Content” (MIT Press, 2017), and “Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content” (MIT Press, 2012))

“Embodied Minds Evolving: From Animals to AI is a landmark contribution to contemporary debates on mind, cognition, and artificial intelligence. Bringing together outstanding scholars, it demonstrates with remarkable breadth and intellectual rigor why an embodied and enactive perspective is indispensable for understanding cognition in an age of AI.” (Thomas Fuchs, author of “In Defense of the Human Being: Foundational Questions of an Embodied Anthropology” (OUP, 2021), and “Ecology of the Brain.The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind” (OUP, 2018))

“In seeking to build artificial intelligence that fits comfortably and ethically into human lives, an obvious, but not often attempted, starting point is the natural intelligence that evolution has built over many eons in many and varied forms. Herein lie some interesting suggestions.” (Michael Tomasello, author of “Agency and Cognitive Development” (OUP, 2024), “The Evolution of Agency” (MIT Press, 2022) and “The Organization of Experience: An Evolutionary Analysis” (MIT Press, 2027))

“The new tsunami induced by artificial intelligence technologies is a major challenge. It requires a new view of a fascinating, unresolved debate about how, during Evolution, the capacities consciousness and human creativity appeared. It also gives a new dimension to the debate between logically driven theories of intelligence and ‘embodied cognition’ approaches. This group of chapters deals with these crucial questions with contributions from highly competent experts from a variety of disciplines. This variety is absolutely necessary, and this book offers a remarkable tool and a matière à penser.” (Alain Berthoz, author of “Simplexity: Simplifying Principles for a Complex World” (Yale UP, 2012), “The Vicarious Brain: Creator of Worlds” (Harvard UP, 2017), and “The Brain's Sense of Movement” (Harvard UP, 2002))

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