Hi all,
I have posted a short paper in my blog, Designio
2.0<http://designio2.wordpress.com/>,
about the interesting field of Mind design. The title of this, Mind Design:
towards a new framework for the study of mental modification of human
behavior - a short
presentation<http://independent.academia.edu/LuisInacio/Papers/1512834/Mind_Design_towards_a_new_framework_for_the_study_of_mental_modification_of_human_behavior_-_a_short_presentation>,
presented at the 12th International Conference for Philosophy & Psychiatry
2009, in Lisbon, Portugal. It can be accessed in Academia.edu.
I would like to have some of your brainpower over this issue. Its a broad
theme (in the sense that implies various fields of inquiry), and I made a
little twist in it. At the present time I had made a progress in this
matter. My current position is not reflected in this presentation. But it
serves as an introduction for a theoretical discussion in this list,
because its a pressing issue and we are witnessing to various forms of mind
designing through psychological and economical theories, pedagogical
theories, etc. Here is the abstract:
«‘Can we design our minds and our behaviors?’ this is the driving question
that presupposes the framework of this field of ’Mind Design’. This term is
not original. It is used by John Haugeland, in the collection of essays
Mind Design II (1996), to a new emerging field where the subject matter was
‘psychology by reverse engineering’, studying the mind in terms of how it
works, in order to build intelligent artifacts in the field of Artificial
Intelligence.
However, this new approach of mind design expands its field (combining the
study o practical reason, the cognitive sciences and psychotherapies) to
the possibility of calculated modification of/in our minds and behaviors,
assuming that behaviors and mental states are subject to manipulation,
combination, and deletion of whatever patterns that are conditions of
courses of action in a human mind.
This appeal to mind engineering might be perceived as artificial, but in
fact it is as natural as any codification of whatever action we execute.
The set of questions that mind design elaborates are: What it is when we
talk about mind engineering? Can an agent autonomously design his own
behavior? What type of engineering is necessary for such thing to happen?
Are there limits of such design? What are the structures of such
possibility?
This set of calculated and intentional modifications of human mind and
behavior are presupposed in psychotherapies. That is why Mid Design defends
a close relationship to various sorts of therapies and their respective
conceptual background.
Therefore, this essay aims to present a brief account of this new
framework, by i) delineating some of the philosophic background and the
connection to psychiatric therapies, ii) the goals of this field and iii)
the delineation of possible future routes of concern of this ongoing
investigation, leaving room for possible discussion.»
Thank you all!
Best regards
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Luís M Inácio
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