The Neurocentric Bias

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The brain is a biological organ. It evolved to do certain things very well, but not to do the things that we ask of it in our complex, knowledge-centric modern society. And so what my book is about is getting more skillful at recruiting that assistance and getting better at thinking outside the brain instead of relying on the brain alone.

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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