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129: The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul

Bookworm

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Is Your Brain Like a Magpie?

There's a lot of neuro science and studies and research that is talked about within this book. She makes the argument right at the beginning that our brain is like a magpie. There's more information that we have to deal with than ever before. It comes at us faster, it's more specialized. So having some sort of scaffolding for thinking outside of your brain probably makes you a better thinker over all. And i think an argument could be made for prose verseis cons with that.

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