Mind in Life: Phenomenology and the Sciences of the MindThompson
2007
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Mind in Life: Phenomenology and the Sciences of the Mind

Evan Thompson

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2007
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The held works cite Thompson (2007) chiefly for the enactive thesis of life-mind continuity: cognition and mind are continuous with the self-maintaining, self-producing organization of living systems. Bruineberg et al. use it to link the free-energy principle to enactivism. Ciaunica et al. cite it for embodied cognition and interactions 'from cell to society'. Keijzer places it among embodied approaches, and Fábregas-Tejeda and Sims treat it as a panextensionalist, strong life-mind continuity position.

The continuity of life and mind thesis, as defended by enactivist philosophers of biology (Jonas 1966/2001; Di Paolo 2005; Thompson 2007), states that both these questions should be tackled at once.

Bruineberg J, Kiverstein J, Rietveld E, 2018 · The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle… · open at passage 8

For the domain of cognition, being a panextensionalist is one way of subscribing a strong life-mind continuity thesis

Fábregas-Tejeda A, Sims M, 2025 · On the prospects of basal cognition research becoming fully… · open at passage 26

it 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… · open at passage 65
Cited by 2 held works
2018The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective · Bruineberg J, Kiverstein J, Rietveld E11,164 words
2022Biology, Buddhism, and AI: Care as the Driver of Intelligence · Doctor T, Witkowski O, Solomonova E, Duane B, Levin M13,146 words