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Andy Clark on The Extended Mind

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Does It Matter?

There's a philosophical argument here by rob rupert that says everything that clerk and charmers and people like that say about the extended mind. But i think that gives us the wrong result with regard to certain real world cases. One is there's a working catholic deacon called patrick jones out in colorado springs, and he's got the kind of memory deficit that some people might be familiar with from the movie memento. He can't lay down new memories. If somebody reached into his evenote files and wiped them all,. How should we think about that kind of interference? I think really we should think about that as an assault on patrick jones's person.

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