It's no accident that memory is at the heart of recent work on dynamical cognition and the embodied, embedded, and extended mind.
Thus, the leading intuition underlying the extended mind thesis is that storing information in some external memory device may off-load some of the burden of internal cognitive processes.
As Rid makes clear, we ought to talk not so much about the extended mind as about extended minds – selves interconnected to an unprecedented degree, both through and with machines.
The second vision of computers, as augmenting the human mind by extending brain activity out into the information universe, leads to web or trails related themes that focus on non-linear, non-hierarchical inter-linking of information into cohesive patterns.
The idea of an extended mind has itself extended far beyond philosophy, which is why Clark is now, in his early sixties, one of the most-cited philosophers alive.
Creationists crowd cyberspace every bit as effectively as evolutionists, and extend their minds just as fully.
Tsonga will now face Roger Federer, who beat the 13th-seeded Milos Raonic of Canada, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), 6-2, to extend his mind-boggling record of consecutive Grand Slam quarterfinal appearances.
Park officials say the cave holds 8 billion cubic feet of air, meaning it may extend a mind-blowing 5,000 miles.
He believed that there were two kinds of substance: matter, of which the essential property is that it is spatially extended; and mind, of which the essential property is that it thinks.
The philosopher Ned Block likes to say that the extended-mind thesis was false in 1995 but is true now.
