23/04/2016, 09:45 — 10:15 — Abreu Faro Amphitheatre
Olga Pombo, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa

Leibnizian grounds for the idea of universal machine

After small considerations on the concept of machine and the paradoxes of its articulation with men’s life, I will do a short presentation of the main thesis of extended mind trying  to show how the leibnizianan theory of symbolism offers a fundamental basis for the contemporary theses about the continuity man-universal machine.