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Andy Clark on The Extended Mind

Philosophy Bites

CHAPTER

Is the Brain All There Is?

This is quite a radical thesis, isn't it? Because you're suggesting that thousands of years of history, where the mind has been thought of as enclosed in the skull, or somehow caught up in the soul. That's all wrong actually. All that time, throughout history, people have been out sourcing information, and their minds have extended far beyond the confines of their skin. I think there is a genuine human sense of not being bounded exactly by what your biological brain could do in a vacuum.

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