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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. "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 " Supersizing the Mind is an important book for cognitive-science theorists of all stripes.... Although traditional and radical theorists are likely to remain unconvinced, there can be no doubt that Supersizing the Mind will set the terms for many of the coming debates."- Times Literary Supplement "...it offers original thinking in the philosophy of mind, and it is highly recommended for academic collections in that subject."- Library Journal "In Supersizing the Mind, philosopher Andy Clark makes the compelling argument that the mind extends beyond the body to include the tools, symbols and other artefacts we deploy to engage the world.... Supersizing the Mind is a treat to read. It is brimming with remarkable ideas, novel insights and amusing language."-Nature
Show moreWhen 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. "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 " Supersizing the Mind is an important book for cognitive-science theorists of all stripes.... Although traditional and radical theorists are likely to remain unconvinced, there can be no doubt that Supersizing the Mind will set the terms for many of the coming debates."- Times Literary Supplement "...it offers original thinking in the philosophy of mind, and it is highly recommended for academic collections in that subject."- Library Journal "In Supersizing the Mind, philosopher Andy Clark makes the compelling argument that the mind extends beyond the body to include the tools, symbols and other artefacts we deploy to engage the world.... Supersizing the Mind is a treat to read. It is brimming with remarkable ideas, novel insights and amusing language."-Nature
Show moreForward: 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
Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University. Author of Being There, and Natural Born Cyborgs.
"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
" Supersizing the Mind is an important book for cognitive-science
theorists of all stripes.... Although traditional and radical
theorists are likely to remain unconvinced, there can be no doubt
that Supersizing the Mind will set the terms for many of the coming
debates."-- Times Literary Supplement
"...it offers original thinking in the philosophy of mind, and it
is highly recommended for academic collections in that subject."--
Library Journal
"In Supersizing the Mind, philosopher Andy Clark makes the
compelling argument that the mind extends beyond the body to
include the tools, symbols and other artefacts we deploy to engage
the world.... Supersizing the Mind is a treat to read. It is
brimming with remarkable ideas, novel insights and amusing
language."--Nature
" Supersizing the Mind is tantalizing in many respects, and Clark's
ingenuity is always on display. Just as his earlier Being There
launched many a research project, we expect that Supersizing the
Mind will inspire a new generation of philosophers, psychologists,
and artificial intelligence researchers to reconsider some basic
assumptions about the mind." -- Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews
"This is an important book; it provides compelling and empirically
well-supported argument; it offers a survey of the state-of-play in
contemporary cognitive science; it directs our attention to the
most pressing foundational issue in the study of mind, that of how
to reconcile the information-processing perspective with the
growing recognition that action and the body, not to mention
technology, have a crucial role in our mental lives."--Trends in
Cognitive
Sciences
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