Andy Clark - Relationship Between Mind and Environment | Are.na

The last paragraph of ‘The Extended Mind’ anticipated this, noting that the ‘reconception of ourselves’ that the hypothesis demanded would have ‘significant consequences’, not least moral and ethical implications. ‘In some cases,’ it said, ‘interfering with someone’s environment will have the same moral significance as interfering with their person

And so, they argued, if we include the ears and the acoustic sensing apparatus as part of Anna’s boundaries, should we not also include the web of the spider? Should we thus not also count the electrode that prodded her brain during surgery, since it was able to induce laughter, joy, and mirth no differently than if another part of her brain had do

3. Your Identity: The Parietal Lobe

brains—and conscious minds—as embodied and embedded systems.