Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Clark, Andy
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780199773688, Publication Date: Wed, December 1, 2010, Type: Paperback ,
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0When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a record of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that our thinking
doesn't happen only in our heads but that certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world. The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback
loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging cognitive
landscape and a sustained argument in favor of a conception of mind that is extended rather than brain-bound. The importance of this new perspective is profound. If our minds themselves can include aspects of our social and physical environments, then the kinds of social and physical environments
we create can reconfigure our minds and our capacity for thought and reason.
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