Annie Murphy-Paul, who wrote a book called The Exstated Mind. She says we need lots of very thin sliced expertise to understand even something as simple as how to get coffee from this place to your mouth. No one person can hold all that information and understand all that expertise. So we have to learn to think better with other people.
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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