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"When 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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Author:   Andy Clark (, University of Edinburgh)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 14.50cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9780199773688

ISBN 10:   0199773688
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   03 February 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Forward: By David Chalmers Acknowledgements Introduction: BRAINBOUND versus EXTENDED I: From Embodiment to Cognitive Extension 1. The Active Body 2. The Negotiable Body 3. Material Symbols 4. World, Incorporated II. Boundary Disputes 5. Mind Re-bound? 6. The Cure for Cognitive Hiccups (HEMC, HEC, HEMC...) 7. Rediscovering the Brain III: The Limits of Embodiment 8. Painting, Planning, and Perceiving 9. Disentangling Embodiment 10. Conclusions: Mindsized Bites Appendix: The Extended Mind, Andy Clark and David Chalmers

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brilliant...providing the best argument I've seen for the idea that minds are smeared over more space than neuroscience might have us believe. New Scientist

brilliant...providing the best argument I've seen for the idea that minds are smeared over more space than neuroscience might have us believe. * New Scientist *

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Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University. Author of Being There, and Natural Born Cyborgs.

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