VANŽURA, Marek. Drones : A case for extended mind, cognition and emotions. In SOPhiA 2015 – Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, 2.-4. 9. 2015, Salzburg. 2015.
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Original name Drones : A case for extended mind, cognition and emotions
Name in Czech Drony : argument pro rozšířenou mysl, poznávání a emoce
Authors VANŽURA, Marek (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition SOPhiA 2015 – Salzburg Conference for Young Analytic Philosophy, 2.-4. 9. 2015, Salzburg, 2015.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Austria
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00083718
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) drony; rozšířená mysl; ptsd
Keywords in English drones; extended mind; ptsd
Tags mzok, rivok
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Skřivanová, učo 262124. Changed: 24/2/2016 16:21.
Abstract
The notion of drones as vehicles without humans on board, that is considered to be a beneficial factor for their remote operators, seems to be misleading if we consider a real life implications for these "pilots". It turned out that the existence of the post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among those operators is at least at the same level as in the case of pilots fighting inside the cockpits above war zones. Thus remoteness of a "pilot" and his physical absence in military vehicle in fact does not really solve problems of harm and imply that human is still in some sense physically present in unmanned systems. If so, "unmanned" is not a proper word for these machines. In this talk I am going to argue from the position of the extended mind theory that unmanned vehicles create together with their operators coupled extended cognitive systems, where drones function as the extension of operators' cognitive functions, minds and potentially emotions. I will explore this concept of extended emotions in detail as one of the causes of such a high number of PTSD among drone operators. This could eventually lead to the reconsideration of a concept of drones as systems without humans and to a better grasp of them as extended systems where a man is still in a loop and highly physically participating. Such updated notion would bring new demands on the ethics and politics of drone use and consequently on their operations.
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MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MUName: Soudobé problémy a minulé podoby filozofické diskuse
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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