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Andy Clark on The Extended Mind

Philosophy Bites

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Do We Lean on External Structures?

There is a kind of neurotypical profile here that has a certain amount of leaning on external structure by o external structure. But if you imagine that, for example, we were somewhat different generally, and that most people didn't need to use a yellow sticky note to remind them of a particular appointment the next day then i think what you'd start to see is that, well, we lean on all structures externally just as much as they do. So extended minds don't have to be big versions of biological minds. I think they can be something different.

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