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#322 - Predicting Reality
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
The Pros and Cons of the Extended Mind
In 1998, David Chalmers and I used an example of a person with mild dementia who always carries a notebook around. If you ask them to go somewhere in town, they will always look in the notebook if biological memory hasn't given them the answer already. So that becomes a kind of automatic routine. Notebook's always there. There's an auto call to bio memory. And then if that fails, there's anAuto call to pulling out the notebook and having a look. But for me, the decision is a sort of a very balanced point at which you could say, yeah, but, you know, all the interesting works being done by the brain just knows to launch an action
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