Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_15829
dc.title	Cognition and Intelligence After the Post-Human Turn. Insights from the Brain-Gut Axis
dc.contributor.author	Raffaetà Roberta
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/the-journal-for-the-philosophy-of-language-mind-an/2023/2/cognition-and-intelligence-after-the-post-human-tu/
dc.description.abstract	This article discusses how the post‑human turn in science and society is framing cognition, mind and intelligence taking as empirical case the gut‑brain axis developed within microbiome science. The article brings into dialogue authors from different disciplines that deal with the relationship between cognition and posthumanism, with the aim to indicate posthumanism’s potential but also to warn about the risk of its – more or less conscious – engulfment into a neoliberal framework. Bringing into dialogue an ontoepistemic and a sociopolitical analysis – debates that are too often kept separated – the article indicates that the ‘becoming environmental’ of cognition, mind and intelligence, far from simply being a dehumanizing gesture that causes anthropocentrism to crumble, is still a very human endeavour, deeply rooted in human history and its varied desires and political aspirations.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoLMA
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 4 \| Issue 2 \| December 2023
dc.issued	2024-02-07
dc.dateAccepted	2023-12-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-11-02
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2723-9640
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/003
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Computation
dc.subject	Cybernetics
dc.subject	Gut-brain axis
dc.subject	Microbiome
dc.subject	Posthumanism

Research Article
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Insights from the Brain-Gut Axis

Roberta Raffaetà Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

This article discusses how the post‑human turn in science and society is framing cognition, mind and intelligence taking as empirical case the gut‑brain axis developed within microbiome science. The article brings into dialogue authors from different disciplines that deal with the relationship between cognition and posthumanism, with the aim to indicate posthumanism’s potential but also to warn about the risk of its – more or less conscious – engulfment into a neoliberal framework. Bringing into dialogue an ontoepistemic and a sociopolitical analysis – debates that are too often kept separated – the article indicates that the ‘becoming environmental’ of cognition, mind and intelligence, far from simply being a dehumanizing gesture that causes anthropocentrism to crumble, is still a very human endeavour, deeply rooted in human history and its varied desires and political aspirations.

Published

Feb. 7, 2024

Accepted

Dec. 21, 2023

Submitted

Nov. 2, 2023

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Keywords: Computation • Cybernetics • Microbiome • Gut-brain axis • Posthumanism

permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2023/02/003

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