The Extended Mind

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There's a distinction between the, i think you call it a brain bound view of how the mind works. You call it the extended view. Is that' what you're referring to here? Yes. There's a famous paper by two philosophers, david chalmers and andy clark. In the mid nineties, when to say, 19 96, they wrote a paper called the extended mind. The idea of the extended mind is, where does the mind end? That's the question that they are really asking. We can think of the mind as extending out into the world.

Karl Fast is an independent scholar, information architect, and futurist. He's the co-author of Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding alongside Stephen Anderson, who was featured in episode 39 of the show. In this conversation, Karl tells us about what interaction designers can learn from cognitive science. We had a lot to discuss, so this episode is the first of two on the subject.

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@karlfast on Twitter
Karl Fast on LinkedIn
Figure It Out: Getting From Information to Understanding by Stephen P. Anderson and Karl Fast
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Stroop effect
The Extended Mind by Andy Clark and David Chalmers
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension by Andy Clark
HCI Remixed: Essays on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community, edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald
On Distinguishing Epistemic From Pragmatic Action by David Kirsch and Paul Maglio (pdf)
The Intelligent Use of Space by David Kirsch
Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think by Susan Goldin-Meadow
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine by Don Norman
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
Hans Moravec

Disclosure: I received Karl’s book for free as a previous Rosenfeld Media/Two Waves author.

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