Sander Oest, Sebastian (2024) Life–Mind Continuity: Untangling Categorical, Extensional, and Systematic Aspects. [Preprint]

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In this paper, I argue that current attempts at classifying life–mind continuity (LMC) feature several important ambiguities. We can resolve these ambiguities by distinguishing between the extensional, categorical, and systematic relationships that LMC might encompass. In section 1, I begin by introducing the notion of LMC and the theory behind it. In section 2, I show how different ideas of mind shape different approaches to continuity and how to achieve its aim. In section 3, I canvas various canonical formulations and classifications of LMC; I then demonstrate that they retain important ambiguities. Section 4 builds on this by arguing that we must conceive of the extensional and categorical aspects of continuity independently. In section 5, I show further that current literature has underexplored multiple systematic aspects of continuity. I then take a constructive approach in section 6 by providing a classification model for LMC based on extensional and categorical commitments. Here, I comment on aspects of the thesis omitted from the model but essential for a full classification and thorough comparison between various approaches to LMC. All of these arguments lay the foundation for more exhaustively classifying accounts of LMC.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Sander Oest, Sebastian sebaso@uio.no 0009-0004-2174-476X
Keywords:	Life-Mind Continuity; Biogenic Cognition; Enactivism; Basal Cognition; Metaphysics
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Mr. Sebastian Sander Oest
Date Deposited:	03 Jun 2024 14:39
Last Modified:	03 Jun 2024 14:39
Item ID:	23468
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science > Consciousness General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	June 2024
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23468

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