The imitation game between human and machine, proposed by Turing in 1950, is a game between a discrete and a continuous system. In the framework of the recent studies about embodied and distributed cognition and about prehistoric brains, the Turing’s “discrete-state machine” can be seen as an externalized cognitive mediator that constitutively integrates human “hybrid” cognitive behavior. Through the description of a subclass of these cognitive mediators I call “mimetic minds,” the paper will deal with some of their cognitive and epistemological aspects and with the cognitive role played by the manipulations of the environment that includes them. The last part of the paper will describe the concept of mimetic mind that I have introduced to shed new light on the role of computational modeling and on the decline of the so-called Cartesian computationalism.

Building artificial mimetic minds: how hybrid humans make up distributed cognitive systems

MAGNANI, LORENZO
2010-01-01

Abstract

The imitation game between human and machine, proposed by Turing in 1950, is a game between a discrete and a continuous system. In the framework of the recent studies about embodied and distributed cognition and about prehistoric brains, the Turing’s “discrete-state machine” can be seen as an externalized cognitive mediator that constitutively integrates human “hybrid” cognitive behavior. Through the description of a subclass of these cognitive mediators I call “mimetic minds,” the paper will deal with some of their cognitive and epistemological aspects and with the cognitive role played by the manipulations of the environment that includes them. The last part of the paper will describe the concept of mimetic mind that I have introduced to shed new light on the role of computational modeling and on the decline of the so-called Cartesian computationalism.
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