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farinamirko@gmail.com
University of Edinburgh
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney
GOAL – Developmental
argument for Complementarity
from a phylogenetic standpoint
Pointing Out the Enemy
“Enemies” are those views that
describe functional organisation as
pre-specified and our nature as fixed
and constrained
Neuroconstructivist Perspective
and “Emergent Modularity”
Extended or Exogenetic
Inheritance of developmental
resources
Culture makes
humans as much as
the reverse!
A Revival of the SSS Model…(?)
"The accepted view that mental
functioning is essentially an
intracerebral process, which can
only be secondarily assisted or
amplified by the various artificial
devices which that process has
enabled man to invent, appears to
be quite wrong … [T]he human
brain is fully dependent upon
cultural resources for its very
operation; and those resources are,
consequently, not adjuncts to, but
constituents of, mental activity"
Julian Kiverstein
ILLC Amsterdam Andy “Bowie” Clark
University of Edinburgh
Karola Stotz
University of Sydney
….Once we see how our brains are
sculpted and nurtured to work in
partnership with our cultural
surroundings, this substantially
weakens the case for thinking of
the brain of a single individual as
the container of the mind
[Kiverstein and Farina (2011a)]