208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul
You Are Not So Smart
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The Difference Between Western and Eastern Thinking of the Brain
The opening of your book reminded me of something that was in a book about cultural cognition, I read a while back by Hazel Marcus. There's this attempt to disassemble everything into its component parts, productionism and watchmaker ourselves. And the thinking of the brain in that way, sort of leads to a lot of these ideas that you're busting. But then there's this Eastern thing, which is how we abstract out what we are using different cultural lineages. We need to remember that the brain is not operating in isolation. It's a body in a physical space where our focus should be on other people.
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