Resumen
This presentation will consider the possibilities to deal with the domestication of Mind at a cognitive and brain (neurological) dimension. While avoiding any form of brain or mentalist reductionism, we think there are certain ways through which the development of symbolic and economic domestication can be revised at the level of the cognitive effects and neurological footprint that they produce. Processes of concept formation, abstract thinking, creation of metaphors and substitution of analogical reasoning by homologies and conventional categories, which are a fundamental part of the domesticated thought and practice, can be studied at the level of neuronal functioning. They all involve complex cognitive dimensions that can be explained by adopting a paradigm of Active Inference (or Predictive Processing) and have neurological correlates. This paper is part of the XSCAPE project on Material Minds, and ERC Synergy Grant that explores the interactions between predictive brains, cultural artefacts, and embodied visual search.
Palabras clave
Domestication. Mind. Cognitive processing. Concepts formation. Active Inference. Cognition.