延展心灵观在反驳传统笛卡尔式心灵观时陷入了“因果耦合-构成谬误”,谬误的根源在于人们基于民间的“容器观”对因果、构成概念进行直觉上的二元划分。当代结构实在论批判了这种“容器观”,否认因果、构成概念的常识性区分,彻底解构了独立存在的个别对象,而强调一切都是结构,所谓的心灵不过是神经、身体和环境相互作用下所突现出来的高阶复杂物理结构。这种意义上的“结构心灵”既可以破解谬误,而且在真正意义上彻底走出了传统的笛卡尔式心灵观。
When the extended mind rejects the traditional Cartesianism, which also gets trapped into the "causal coupling- con- stitution fallacy", the source of which is that people who based on the folk "view of containment" intuitively distinguish causation from its constitution. Contemporary structural realism, however, criticizes this "view of containment " by denying the common sense distinc- tion, for this purpose it systematically deconstructed the independent particular reality. Meanwhile, since structural realism emphasizes that everything is structural, and therefore mind is nothing but a complex higher order physical structure emerged from interactions of nerves, body and the world. In this sense, the "structural mind" not only solved the fallacy, but also completely gets rid of the tradi- tional Cartesian mind.