"I am a super hand gesture and this is why this sucks so much for me personally because I need a space where I can do this constantly like Jeff Goldblum," he says. "We should have a good thing that loop with our own hand gestures, right?" asks the actor of his new book about how people use their hands to help them think. The author adds: "It turns out that our newest ideas are most cutting edge and most advanced."
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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