Sloman Steven A, Patterson Richard, Barbey Aron K
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States.
Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Front Syst Neurosci. 2021 Oct 21;15:675127. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.675127. eCollection 2021.
Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover the biological foundations of the human mind. One goal is to explain how mental operations are generated by the information processing architecture of the human brain. Our aim is to assess whether this is a well-defined objective. Our contention will be that it is not because the information processing of any given individual is not contained entirely within that individual's brain. Rather, it typically includes components situated in the heads of others, in addition to being distributed across parts of the individual's body and physical environment. Our focus here will be on cognition distributed across individuals, or on what we call the "community of knowledge," the challenge that poses for reduction of cognition to neurobiology and the contribution of cognitive neuroscience to the study of communal processes.
认知神经科学试图揭示人类思维的生物学基础。一个目标是解释心理活动是如何由人类大脑的信息处理结构产生的。我们的目的是评估这是否是一个明确界定的目标。我们的观点是,它不是,因为任何特定个体的信息处理并不完全包含在该个体的大脑中。相反,它通常还包括存在于他人头脑中的成分,此外还分布在个体身体和物理环境的各个部分。我们这里的重点将是个体间分布的认知,或者我们所说的“知识共同体”,它给将认知还原为神经生物学带来的挑战,以及认知神经科学对群体过程研究的贡献。