The “Extended Mind Thesis,” originally established by philosopher and cognitive scientists Andy Clark and David Chalmers in 1998, shares that the mind does not exclusively reside in the brain, or even the body, but extends beyond and into the physical world.

This would make the web a model example of extended cognition, an idea first proposed by the philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers in 1998 to apply to human thought. In accounts of extended cognition, processes like checking a grocery list or rearranging Scrabble tiles in a tray are close enough to memory-retrieval or problem-solving tasks tha

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