A few years ago I distinguished between two flavours of connectivism - the 'Siemens answer' and the 'Downes answer'. In particular, the 'Siemens answer' is based on the concept of multimodal extension whereby networks reach out and integrate with each other. This, say, a human neural network might be extended into a computer network. This paper is a description and elaboration of that idea from a philosophical perspective. In particular, it distinguishes between an extended mind and extended consciousness. It is (possibly) true that we could extend our mind by adding computer circuits, but this extension to the brain is not an extension to the mind if we consider the mind to be limited by consciousness - that is, to perception and action. Great discussion. Image: Basar and Duzgun.
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