A Preliminary Study on the Relationship Between Extended Cognition and Functionalism
The extended cognition thesis holds that objects located outside an agent's brain can partially constitute the agent's mental states.Clark and Chalmers who put forward the extended cognition thesis,defend it by what they call the"parity principle".However,opponents continue to point out the differences between internal and ex-ternal resources and then question the validity of the parity principle.In order to rebut these criticisms,some schol-ars including Clark use functionalism to explain the parity principle as"functional parity",so the apparent differ-ences between internal and external resources become irrelevant.However,this approach has also raised a new round of objections.The aim of this paper is to argue that the extended cognition thesis and functionalism can be treated separately,and the extended cognition thesis is still valid without the support of functionalism.
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