i'm thinking of things like the apple watch, which i'm weariand this notion that all of a sudden, my my movements get quantified as this exercise ring. Does that serve to bring us closer to our awareness, or does it somehow build a distance by abstracting it out into a number that we're aiming for? That's a really interesting question. I think we're living in a moment where so many of these things are unknown and unsettled. And it's going to be a process of of learning how these technologies affect us and how they affect us long term.
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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