David McRaney: We don't be the last few generations to be considered like the ancients, which I'm totally, I think that's super rad. Annie Murphy: Whatever you write, you're creating. And we're the elders of the next phase. That is it for this episode of the You're Not So Smart podcast. Head to youornotsosmart.com For all the past episodes, go to SoundCloud or Stitcher or Spotify or iTunes or omni or youornotssmart.com.
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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