Self and personal identity: hybridization and expansion
This article aims to show, based on a reading of Andy Clark’s extended mind hypotheses and his absorption of the functionalist consequences, that the concepts of self and personal identity are naturally diluted in the body and in the world. We defend that the movement performed by the integration of...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Veritas (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/44072 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/veritas/article/view/44072 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | self híbrido identidade pessoal mente estendida mente socialmente estendida Andy Clark Self híbrido Identidad personal Mente extendida Mente socialmente extendida Andy Clark. Hybrid self Personal identity Extended mind Socially extended mind |
| Resumo: | This article aims to show, based on a reading of Andy Clark’s extended mind hypotheses and his absorption of the functionalist consequences, that the concepts of self and personal identity are naturally diluted in the body and in the world. We defend that the movement performed by the integration of Clark’s proposal with Richard Heersmink’s autobiographical self and Shaun Gallagher’s pattern theory of self is a movement of hybridization, which gives rise to the image of an ecological and multifaceted self, as well as a more permeable notion of personal identity. After all, while Clark sheds light on functionalist movements that extend the mind and the self in the world, Heersmink emphasizes the role of self-narrative in the design of the self, as well as the socially extended character of the self and the relationships between it and personal identity. Gallagher, in turn, reiterates the relevance of both this social dimension and the conception of a thesis that expresses this diversified character. More specifically, in this process we will have the emergence of a hybrid self. |
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