The Importance of Belief in Cognitive Ability

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I agree that there's something important about the source of the external information that you're getting. Is it traceable back to anything that you did at some point? And the fact that he put down all this information in his notebook, or at least sort of asked somebody to do it and that that seems to make that example more plausible. But then, when you have information that you didn't ever at any point think to ask about or play any role in it being available to you, then it sort of never epistemically interacting with that. Then it seems weird to call it a belief. I wonder how important that is for the mind.

David and Tamler break down a recent classic in the philosophy of mind: "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers. What is boundary of your mind? Is it contained with your body, or does it extend to the external environment--to your laptop, notebook, smartphone and more? Is this a purely terminological question, or one with practical and moral significance? And what is the role of intuition in providing an answer? Plus, Dave shares an email alerting him to the psychological trauma of male circumcision along with an exciting all-natural method for restoring the foreskin (that was stolen from us as infants).

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