CNN's John Sutter asks author to wax poetic about natural spaces. He says nature is full of stimuli that produce what psychologists call a state of soft fascination. Author: We evolved outside, our really sort of housebound life is a very recent invention. "The way to refill the tank is to go outside"
In this episode we sit down with Annie Murphy Paul, the acclaimed science writer, whose new book, The Extended Mind is all about how the brain is part of systems, and it is those systems that constitute the mind. In other words, our minds are not, as she puts it, brainbound, but they extend to our computers, our notebooks, our friends and neighbors and colleagues and partners. The environments in which we move, natural and otherwise, deeply influence how we think, what we think, and what we CAN think, and in addition, everything the brain does becomes a reference for extended thinking, and these feedback loops extend what the mind can do.
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