Challenges of the Technological Mind Between Philosophy and Technology

This book presents a set of texts that reflect different approaches to the relationship between mind and technology. In today’s increasingly technological world, a myriad of different and dizzying challenges face humanity: the ever-closer relationship between man and machine, the exponential development of Artificial Intelligence, man's relationship with virtual worlds, the relationship with new realities such as the neuro potentiation of his capacities, the appearance of robots in everyday life, and so on. In this volume, renowned world specialists explore these concerns, and discuss limitations and possible problems surrounding the interaction of man and machine. The book provides a well-researched, thought-provoking analysis of the need to rethink the theory of the mind, proposing relevant answers to pressing questions and raising new questions that need to be considered.

PARTI: Echoes of technological mind.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Is artificial intelligence intelligent?.- 3. Anthropomorphizing and trusting social robots.- 4. What neurohacking can tell us about the mind. Cybercrime, mind upload and the Artificial Extended Mind.- 5. On Neuroenhancement: Between bioethics and biotechnology.- PARTII: Challenging mind: Between Cognition and Art.- 6. Consciousness, Theory, and Mental Appearance.- 7. Theoretical virtues of cognitive extension.- 8. Hypnotic AI. The Altered States of Media Matter.- 9. The Digital Playful River, a River Out of Eden. How the internet shaped my planetary perception. .- 10. The mind, embodiment and technology: Experience, aesthetic sensibility and production of meaning.

Paulo Alexandre e Castro is a full member of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and visiting professor at the University of Caxias do Sul, Brazil.