ET
- Born
- 1 January 1962
- Country
- Canada
- Field
- philosopher, university teacher
- In the library
- 1 work, named in 12 passages elsewhere
- Facts from
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Continuity of mind and life
Bruineberg, Kiverstein and Rietveld cite Thompson (2007) for the continuity of mind and life. They argue that the free-energy principle applies first to whole embodied living systems, not to brains or knowing agents alone. On that basis they point to an overlap between the principle and the enactive approach1.
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Use in bioelectric cognition
Ciaunica, Shmeleva and Levin cite Thompson (2007) when they describe cognition as serving the physical, biochemical and bioelectrical processes of a self-organizing organism3. They cite the same work, with Levin and Dennett (2020), for tracing interactions between autonomous systems “all the way from cell to society”2. In both places the book supports a framing, not a measurement.
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the biological motivation for free-energy minimization highlights the continuity of mind and life (Thompson 2007), and hence the overlap with the enactive approach.
Bruineberg J, Kiverstein J, Rietveld E, 2018 · The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle from an… · open at passage 6it is possible to retrace the impact of such irreducible interactions between autonomous systems “all the way from cell to society” (Thompson, 2007; Levin and Dennett, 2020).
Ciaunica A, Shmeleva EV, Levin M, 2023 · The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in… · open at passage 65geared to sustain and maintain the physico-, biochemical-, and bioelectrical processes that constitute a biological self-organizing organism: the human body
Ciaunica A, Shmeleva EV, Levin M, 2023 · The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in… · open at passage 4
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