Extending existential feeling through sensory substitution
Saarinen, J. A. (2023). Extending existential feeling through sensory substitution. Synthese, 201(2), Article 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04049-x
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In current philosophy of mind, there is lively debate over whether emotions, moods, and other affects can extend to comprise elements beyond one’s organismic boundaries. At the same time, there has been growing interest in the nature and significance of so-called existential feelings, which, as the term suggests, are feelings of one’s overall being in the world. In this article, I bring these two strands of investigation together to ask: can the material underpinnings of existential feelings extend beyond one’s skull and skin? To begin, I introduce and adopt a componential-systemic view of extended affectivity. In doing so, I specify the vehicle externalist criteria for extension employed in my analysis. I then define what existential feelings are and pinpoint several key issues in their potential extension. More specifically, I identify sensorimotor ‘know-how’ as a possibly extending component of existential feeling and posit it as the fulcrum of my argument. Finally, I move on to consider the extension of existential feeling via sensory substitution, especially through so-called tactile visual sensory substitution (TVSS) devices. Informed by both philosophical and empirical studies, I argue that, under certain conditions, (a) the agent’s implicit sensorimotor processing and a TVSS device can become coupled into a new systemic whole, which in turn (b) reconfigures the material underpinnings of the agent’s preintentional world-experience. This, I conclude, counts as a cogent case for extended existential feeling.
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existential feeling extended affectivity sensory substitution body schema sensorimotor contingencies sensorimotor know-how tactile visual sensory substitution devices dynamical systems theory coupling feedback loops eksistentialismi eksistenssi tunteet ruumiinkuva kontingenssi affektiivisuus sensomotorinen kehitys
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