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Clark, A. & Chalmers, D. The extended mind.
Topics we will discuss include: the sense and reference of proper names, the conceptuality of experience, overintellectualizing the intellect, and the extended mind.
He builds on these views, clarifies and renders consistent the ideas of embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended mind, and develops a unified philosophical treatment of the novel conception of the mind that underlies the new science of the mind.
Annie Murphy Paul, the author of "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives," is a science writer at work on a book about the extended mind.
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.
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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 philosopher Ned Block likes to say that the extended-mind thesis was false in 1995 but is true now.
The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction there emerges an extended cognitive system incorporating such extracranial supports as pencils, papers, computers, and other objects and environments in the world.
My obsessive note taking and extended "mind-spills" as I called them fill many trunks in my storage spaces in Brooklyn and Pennsylvania.
Some theorists had argued that disability was often a feature less of a person than of a built environment that failed to take some needs into account; the extended-mind thesis showed how clearly this was so.
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