Detailed Information on Publication Record
2015
Drones : A case for extended mind, cognition and emotions
VANŽURA, MarekBasic information
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
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher
Austria
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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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
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International impact
Změněno: 24/2/2016 16:21, Mgr. Marie Skřivanová
Abstract
V originále
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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