Dr Guido Seddone | Mind as an Embodied Faculty: on the Biological Interdependence of Mind and Brain

In this contribution I will address the mind-brain problem by giving account of their mutual dependence and by underlining the fact that the mind is the extension of the biological functions of the brain. I will assume that a correct investigation of the cognitive disposition requires to deal with the logical aspects connected with these functions, what also will explain the consistency and the self-regulative liability of both the formal and the natural languages. In order to grasp the way how mind rules the organic functions of the brain I will assume an enactivist approach by stressing the fact that mind bears logical and linguistic functions that are based on the same self-referential and self-maintaining operational closure that we also observe in both single-celled organisms and more evolved living beings. Eventually, I will also address the notion of the embodied mind in order to explain cognitive dispositions as the result of the process of individual and personal acculturation and acquisition of socially acknowledged practices and norms.

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