i think we can change our notion of what role the brain plays, you know, less a kind of work horse that's doing all of the work itself. And in fact, the brain is really orchestrating resources from outside itself, from the body, from the physical surroundings, from other people. So the brain is still central, but i think we can changed our notion of how it works.
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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