Abstract

REGIS, Fátima. From subject to information system: how new conceptions of mind affect subjectivity. Ciênc. cogn. [online]. 2006, vol.9, pp. 137-145. ISSN 1806-5821.

This article intends to analyze how the new conceptions of the mind broadens the frontiers between men, animals and machines, putting in question the subjectivity and the place of the human in the world. In the first section, the text discloses how in modernity the mind was a uniqueness of man and a warranty of his superiority over animals and machines. In the second part, the text points how scholars of distinctive areas, as cognitive sciences, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy has been dissociating intelligence and thinking from the existence of a consciousness of oneself, bringing questioning about what is to think? and who thinks? © Ciências & Cognição 2006; Vol. 09: xxx-xxx.

Keywords : information; subjectivity; mind; cognitive sciences; philosophy..

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