Drones : A case for extended mind, cognition and emotions

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Drones : A case for extended mind, cognition and emotions

VANŽURA, Marek

Basic 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

References:

URL

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

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.

Links

MUNI/A/1153/2014, interní kód MU

Name: Soudobé problémy a minulé podoby filozofické diskuse

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

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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