We need to think carefully about how we use these devices, says Dr E. He urges people to be aware of what the trade-off is between convenience and ease. From his reading of research, i have a real bias in favor of in person interactions. So much of our intelligence emerges from the fact that we are embodied,. And that's easy to forget when we're so in this head space of using computers and our devices.
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and other publications.
Our conversation focuses on the subject of her latest book, The Extended Mind, which is about how human cognition relies on our bodies, other people, and the material world. I loved this book and was thrilled to ask Annie about how this line of thinking plays out in the context of our heavily digitized lives.
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