I was at the Science Museum in London one time, and I saw they had this very creepy, entire nervous system just there to look at and walk around. And it looks like the flying spaghetti monster, but it looks like a very strange jellyfish or something. My body is an earth suit for the seafaring thing that evolved and came out of the ocean. That's... But I love the... That is pretty attractive. The... My best moments, I think, my best moments are still bong rip moments.
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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