The extented mind is your third book? And the other two deal with cognition. Well, my first book was about personality testing. It's called the cult o personality. And it was a scientific critique and cultural history of personality testing. I found that topic interesting because i'm interested in why we are the way we are,. How we think about the way we am, and how that interacts with what society tells us we should be.
Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, Slate, Time magazine, The Best American Science Writing, and other publications.
Our conversation focuses on the subject of her latest book, The Extended Mind, which is about how human cognition relies on our bodies, other people, and the material world. I loved this book and was thrilled to ask Annie about how this line of thinking plays out in the context of our heavily digitized lives.
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