The Science of Wholeness 4/6: Extending the Mind (and Intending Matter) with Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín

November 12, 2023. 2 hours. Most neuroscientists are convinced that minds live in skull confinement—after all, their metaphysical gospel (cloaked in brain scans) insists that minds are ‘nothing but’ what brains do. Some occasionally let their minds stroll within the body, acknowledging the importance of heart and gut, while maintaining the brain as organ king. A few conservative radicals go further and claim that minds can also protract into the world, much like the blind person’s cane or everyone’s phone. Such an ‘extended mind’ is seriously meant but often rather metaphorically as a heterodox way to lessen the duality by…