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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
Andy Clark
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Paperback. In Supersizing the Mind , Andy Clark argues that the human mind is not bound inside the head but extends into body and environment. Series: Philosophy of Mind Series. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 17. Weight in Grams: 484.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Philosophy of Mind Series
Condition
New
Weight
483g
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199773688
SKU
V9780199773688
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About Andy Clark
Professor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University. Author of BEING THERE, and NATURAL-BORN CYBORGS (OUP 2003).
Reviews for Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
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
New Scientist