The third-wave claims that the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard-won, and always open to negotiation. It calls into question any separation of the biological from the social and cultural when thinking about the boundaries of the mind. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein show how this account of the mind finds support in predictive processing, leading them to a view of phenomenal consciousness as partially realised by patterns of cultural practice.
Michael D. Kirchhoff is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wollongong, Australia.
Julian Kiverstein is Senior Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.