Andy Clark - Relationship Between Mind and Environment | Are.na
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Andy Clark - Relationship Between Mind and Environment | Are.na
More than 20 years ago, two philosophers, Andy Clark and David Chalmers, wrote a journal article that opened with a question: “Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Now, that question would seem to have an obvious answer, right? The mind stops at the head. It’s contained within the skull. But Clark and Chalmers maintained that
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