Andy Clark

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Andy Clark
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Alma mater
Extended mind

Andy Clark,

mind extension. He has also written extensively on connectionism, robotics and the role and nature of mental representation.[2]

Philosophical work

Clark's work explores a number of disparate but interrelated themes. Many of these themes run against established

Cartesian
"central executive" or a distributed process like homuncular decomposition.

In contrast to traditional models of

hedonic" factors would be implicated along with the minimization of prediction error, creating a more nuanced model for the relationship between action and perception.[3]

According to Clark, the

changing, the demands on the mental system will almost certainly preclude any action taking place. For Clark, we need relatively little information about the world before we may act effectively upon it. We tend to be susceptible to "grand illusion", where our impressions of a richly detailed world obscure a reality of minimal environmental information and quick action. We needn't try to reconstruct the detail of this world, as it is able to serve as its own best model from which to extract information "just in time
".

Clark's writings also focus on the concept of

eyeglasses or something more advanced such as a new auditory prosthesis
, he believes the merger of technology and biology is inevitable and present.

Extended mind thesis

Main article: Extended mind thesis

Clark is perhaps most well known for his work on the extended mind thesis, which says that the mind extends into the environment. Clark spoke about his thesis in TEDxLambeth 2019.[5]

Personal life

Clark lives in Brighton, England, with his partner, Alexa Morcom, a cognitive neuroscientist. He has a tattoo of a comic book styled, undersea theme.[6]

Bibliography

Books by Andy Clark:

  • Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Parallel Distributed Processing (1989)
  • Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts and Representational Change (1993)
  • Being There: Putting Brain, Body and World Together Again (1997)
  • Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2001)
  • Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence (2004)
  • Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (2008)
  • Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (2016)
  • The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality (2023)[7]

Clark is also on the editorial boards of the following journals:

References

  1. ^ "CONTACT - Consciousness in Interaction". linus.media.unisi.it. 2006. Archived from the original on 13 October 2006. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
  2. ^ "Philosophy | The University of Edinburgh". Philosophy.ed.ac.uk. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  3. PMID 23663408
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  5. ^ "TEDxLambeth | TED". www.ted.com. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  6. ^ MacFarquhar, Larissa (2 April 2018). "The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  7. ^ Greenawalt, Marc (2 December 2022). "Spring 2023 Announcements: Science". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 14 December 2022.

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