How Minds Change Is Starting Out About Social Change

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"I wanted to understand how same sex marriage went from being 61% opposed to 61% in favor and about, it took about 12 years total," she said. "And I discovered very quickly what you were getting into, which is the science and psychology of learning."

In this episode we sit down with Annie Murphy Paul, the acclaimed science writer, whose new book, The Extended Mind is all about how the brain is part of systems, and it is those systems that constitute the mind. In other words, our minds are not, as she puts it, brainbound, but they extend to our computers, our notebooks, our friends and neighbors and colleagues and partners. The environments in which we move, natural and otherwise, deeply influence how we think, what we think, and what we CAN think, and in addition, everything the brain does becomes a reference for extended thinking, and these feedback loops extend what the mind can do.

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