The Epistemic Crisis of the Human Organism

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You say that the demands of life may actually have reached a point where we are exceeding our cognitive capacity to deal with certain very complex problems. And you even mentioned that IQ may have arked and leveled off. Please unpack some of the stuff that I went on about just now, sir. We're not born with a physics module or a calculus module. You talk about marketplaces and other things. And you call these biologically secondary characteristics. The brain does it is like emerged that we have like a, but we have a modules for identifying faces.

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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