The Three-Day Effect

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The author spent four days in the wilderness before writing COVID. He says he feels more grounded, centered and authentically himself after spending that much time outside. "It's a privilege to be a scriptless scriptless script," Paul writes of his new book.

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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