The Mind-Technology Problem: Investigating Minds, Selves and 21st Century Artefacts (Studies in Brain and Mind, 18)

Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Editors
Chapter 1: The Mind Technology Problem and the Deep History of Mind Design
	1.1 What Is the Mind Technology Problem?
	1.2 The Information Age and the Computational Conception of Mind
		1.2.1 AI and the Reconceptualization of Mind
		1.2.2 The Information/Computation Revolution as Cognitive Transformation
		1.2.3 Being Human in an Age of Smart Artefacts
	1.3 Reconceiving the Mind in a Time of Smart Technologies
		1.3.1 Computational Technology and Emergence in Mind
		1.3.2 The Metaphysical and Technological Presuppositions of Mind Uploading
		1.3.3 The Epistemology, Ethics and Deep History of Mind Extension
	1.4 The Mind Technology Problem and the Future of Philosophy
	References
Part I: Technology and the Metaphysics of Mind
	Chapter 2: Emergent Mental Phenomena
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Preliminaries
			2.2.1 Metaphysics and Emergence
				2.2.1.1 Why a Process Metaphysics?
				2.2.1.2 Process Metaphysics and Emergence
			2.2.2 Normative Emergence, Function, Representation
				2.2.2.1 Normative Emergence
				2.2.2.2 Hume’s Argument
				2.2.2.3 Normative Function
				2.2.2.4 Representational Truth Value
				2.2.2.5 Content
				2.2.2.6 Complex Representing
		2.3 Consciousness: Primary and Reflective
			2.3.1 Primary Consciousness
			2.3.2 Reflective Consciousness
			2.3.3 Experiencing
			2.3.4 An Argument Against the Possibility of the Emergence of Conscious Experience
		2.4 Artificial?
			2.4.1 Uploading?
		2.5 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 3: Technology and the Human Minds
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 Dual Processes
		3.3 Problems
		3.4 Type 2 Thinking as an Activity
		3.5 A Virtual Mind
		3.6 Enhancing Human Intelligence
		3.7 Artificial Intelligence
		3.8 The Risks of Enhancement and AI
		References
	Chapter 4: Does Artificial Intelligence Have Agency?
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Four Accounts of Agency
			4.2.1 Agents Have Desires
			4.2.2 Agents Plan Ahead
			4.2.3 Agents Are Functionally Rational
			4.2.4 Agents Have Drives
		4.3 Common-Ground Agency
			4.3.1 Reflection and Deliberation
			4.3.2 Awareness of Self in Time
			4.3.3 Critical Awareness of Environment
			4.3.4 Freedom of Choice
			4.3.5 What this Means
		4.4 An Analysis: AI and Common-Ground Agency
			4.4.1 Reflection and Deliberation – AI-Friendly
			4.4.2 Awareness of Self in Time – AI-Friendly
			4.4.3 Critical Awareness of Environment -AI Friendly
			4.4.4 Freedom of Choice – AI Friendly
		4.5 Interesting Consequences
		4.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 5: Consciousness: Philosophy’s Great White Whale
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 Russellian Monism
		5.3 Panpsychic Details
		5.4 Polemics
		5.5 Emergentism Redux
		5.6 Back to Prosthetic Consciousness
		References
Part II: The Metaphysical and Technological Presuppositions of Mind-Uploading
	Chapter 6: The Myth of Mind Uploading
		6.1 Mind Uploading
		6.2 Brain Simulation
		6.3 Brain Replacement
		6.4 Consciousness
		6.5 Survival
		6.6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7: Cyborg Divas and Hybrid Minds
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Transcending the Brain?
		7.3 Mind Uploading
		7.4 The Extended Mind: The Challenge
		7.5 Response
		7.6 Objections
		7.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 8: Slow Continuous Mind Uploading
		8.1 The Plausibility of Uploading
		8.2 The Metaphysical Difficulties of Vanilla Uploading
		8.3 Slow Continuous Uploading and Internet Extended Persons
		8.4 Three Ways of Extending Persons with ICTs
			8.4.1 Extensions to Narrative Self
			8.4.2 Extended Agency Through Self-Regulation
			8.4.3 Being Someone Through Embodied Skills
			8.4.4 Distributed Selves and the Cloud
		8.5 On Core Consciousness and Personal Continuity
		8.6 On Psychological Continuity and Butterfly Selves
		References
	Chapter 9: Predicting Me: The Route to Digital Immortality?
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 Predictive Processing
		9.3 Dream Machines
		9.4 Generating Me
		9.5 Memories for Life (and Beyond)
		9.6 The Afterlife
		9.7 Conclusion
		References
Part III: The Epistemology, Ethics and Deep History of the Extended Mind
	Chapter 10: What Is It Like to Be a Drone Operator? Or, Remotely Extended Minds in War
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Technology of Remotely Piloted Aircraft
		10.3 Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Drone Operators
		10.4 Extended Mind and Drone Operators
		10.5 A Role of Causal Connection
		10.6 Objections and Replies
		10.7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 11: Extending Introspection
		11.1 Extended Introspection as Introspection
		11.2 Extended Introspection as Mind-Reading
		11.3 Extended Introspection Sui Generis
		11.4 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 12: Epistemic Complementarity: Steps to a Second Wave Extended Epistemology
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Waves of Extended Cognition
		12.3 Epistemic Parity
		12.4 Epistemic Complementarity
			12.4.1 The Epistemic Complementarity Principle
			12.4.2 Three Steps
		12.5 Step 1: Embodied Agents
		12.6 Step 2: Properties of the Technology
		12.7 Step 3: Socio-cultural Environment
		12.8 Epistemic Complementarity Meets Otto
		12.9 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 13: The Extended Mind: A Chapter in the History of Transhumanism
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Living in “Imago Dei”: The Christian Foundation of Fuller’s Transhumanism
		13.3 Extended Minds Aspiring to the “Ideal Insight” and “Ideal Agency” Models of Imago Dei
		13.4 Self-Made (Cyborg) Man Aspiring to the “Practice Ideal” of Imago Dei
		References
	Correction to: The Mind-Technology Problem
		Correction to: R. W. Clowes et al. (eds.), The Mind-Technology Problem, Studies in Brain and Mind 18, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72644-7
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