Annie Murphy-Paul is an acclaimed science writer. Her TED Talk titled What We Learn Before We Are Born has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. She says our minds are not as she puts a brain bound, but they extend to our computers and notebooks. The environments in which we move also deeply influence how we think,. what we think, and what we can think.
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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