Duración: 2019-2021

Código: 2018-23054

Investigador principal:

Santiago Arango Muñoz, santiago.arango5@udea.edu.co

Co-investigador:

Juan Pablo Bermúdez Rey (Universidad Externado de Colombia)

Equipo de investigación:

Santiago Agudelo (Joven Investigador)

David Vanegas (Estudiante en formación de Maestría)

Óscar Sánchez (Estudiante en formación de pregrado)

Resumen: Mind-wandering has recently attracted the attention of some psychologists and philosophers because it’s an everyday phenomenon where subjects seem to be decoupled from the external world. In this project I would like to propose an alternative, but complementary, view of mind-wandering that sheds some light on its relation to mental action and metacognition. I propose that mind-wandering is not only a decoupling of the mind from external task or stimuli, or directing attention and cognitive control to another action, but rather a temporal suspension of the dynamics of mental action (i.e., mental goals, epistemic norms, and metacognition). In other words: rather than decoupled from external world, in mind-wandering the mind is decoupled from mental agency, and mental events are allowed to happen without any agentive constrain.

Objetivos:

1. Main goal: to propose a definition of mind-wandering in terms of a temporal suspension of the dynamics of mental action (i.e., mental goals, epistemic norms, and metacognition).
2. Specific goal 1: To revise the theory of mind-wandering as the decoupling of mind and world.
3. Specific goal 2: To revise the theory of mind-wandering as an attentional shift.
4. Specific goal 3: To construct a list of different forms of mind-wandering, so that researchers can trace them experimentally.

Palabras clave: mind-wandering, metacogntion, creativity, mental action, mental omission

Entidades cooperantes / financiadoras: 

CODI, Universidad de Antioquia. 

Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Antioquia