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The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
We in the West are used to thinking of the mind and the body as separate. But a burgeoning field called “embodied cognition” is demonstrating that thinking is actually a full-body experience.
Annie Murphy Paul • The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
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
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Extended Mind
The Extended Mind is a theory in cognitive science that argues our thinking isn’t limited to the brain alone—it extends into our bodies, our tools, and our environments.
When we jot notes on paper, gesture with our hands, or use a calculator, those tools and actions don’t just support thinking—they are part of the thinking process. The... See more
The Extended Mind is a theory in cognitive science that argues our thinking isn’t limited to the brain alone—it extends into our bodies, our tools, and our environments.
When we jot notes on paper, gesture with our hands, or use a calculator, those tools and actions don’t just support thinking—they are part of the thinking process. The... See more