Between brains, bodies and things: tectonoetic awareness and the extended self |
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Authors: | Malafouris Lambros |
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Affiliation: | McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3ER, UK. lm243@cam.ac.uk |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the possible outline of a framework that will enable the incorporation of material culture into the study of the human self. To this end, I introduce the notions of extended self and tectonoetic awareness. Focusing on the complex interactions between brains, bodies and things and drawing a number of different and usually unconnected threads of evidence from archaeology, philosophy and neuroscience together, I present a view of selfhood as an extended and distributed phenomenon that is enacted across the skin barrier and which thus comprises both neural and extra-neural resources. Finally, I use the example of a gold Mycenaean signet ring to explore how a piece of inanimate matter can be seen (sometimes) as a constitutive and efficacious part of the human self-system. |
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Keywords: | extended mind material engagement self material culture ‘tectonoetic’ awareness |
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