What Is It Like to Be a Drone Operator? Or, Remotely Extended Minds in War

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Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72644-7_10" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72644-7_10</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What Is It Like to Be a Drone Operator? Or, Remotely Extended Minds in War
Original language description
One of the most prominent technologies of the twenty-first century is remotely piloted aircraft, commonly called drone. Drones offer their users seemingly risk-free participation in war, through remote conducted from afar. However, personal testimonies of former drone operators and psychological studies among current drone operators reveal that these remote warriors suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental issues in the same way as soldiers deployed in harm’s way. To explain this situation, I propose to look at drone operators through the perspective of the extended mind theory. I argue that the cognitive processes, and potentially the minds of drone operators, are extended into drones that fly over war zones. Thus, drone operators are prone to psychological dangers of war. In this paper, I elaborate on this proposal in depth.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project
<a href="/en/project/LO1610" target="_blank" >LO1610: Transport R&D Centre</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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