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146: The Extended Mind, with Annie Murphy Paul

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The Human Brain and the Computer Thing

Amitai Etzioni has written a book about how our brains and bodies function differently in different environments. He says the outdoors is one of the most fruitful contexts for thinking, because it's so easy to take in stimuli that characterizes nature. Being outside also restores attentional capacity that gets drained by just sort of life in today's modern world.

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