Dislocations of the Brain: Subjectivity and Cerebral Topology from Descartes to Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience (original) (raw)

Jens Clausen writes, "Melding brain and machine makes the latter an integral part of the individual. This could be seen to challenge our notions of personhood and moral agency." See Jens Clausen, "Man, machine, and in between," Nature 457, no. 26 (February 2009): 1080. 11 Andrew Clarke and David Chalmers have proposed that in solving a problem or carrying out any kind of epistemic act, there is no essential difference between carrying out that act through the internal processing of the brain versus an actively externalist processing that would rely on physical techniques, practices, and the general machinery of the environment. In a sense, they propose that the mind is itself prosthesized into and as the environment and that the brain can ground, or merely facilitate such a protraction. See "The Extended Mind,"

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