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Ep266 - Annie Murphy Paul | The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

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Are We Extending Our Minds as Human Beings?

I think there's a lot of powers as human beings that don't get used, that effectively get wasted if we don't employ them in as extensions. I'm thinking about how when we're able to spread out our ideas and r the information that's in our heads on to physical space, say, on to a big white board or bulletin board, and im all of a sudden we relate to it in a different way. Human beings have really strong spatial memorye, so they remember where they put things that can move things around. And those are all resources that get wasted when we, when we keep all that information inside our heads.

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