Subtly wrong ideas are much more dangerous to progress in science than plainly wrong ideas. Some subtly wrong ideas seem to include mirror neurons, integrated information theory, the gut brain, the extended mind and autopoiesis.
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So I think I know what you mean by CNS ( I don't know anyone who think that extends into the environment). What do you mean by the term mind? Does it include the content?
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The original champion of the extended mind was Andy Clark. Alva Noe used to be invested in it for a while. Brooks, Bongard and Pfeiffer popularized enactivism in AI. A radical version of enactism in philosophy of mind is for instance given by Ezequiel DiPaolo.
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The problem is that the difference in scale and structure of neurology compared with our natural experience hides the explanatory gap from us. Biochemistry is exotic so we can imagine 'emergence' happening in some innocuous way, but it's no more reasonable.
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Consciousness and mind are not synonymous. Personal self is a ( albiet social) construct of the mind.
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