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Understanding Mental Processes
Thought happens not only inside the skull but out in the world, too; it’s an act of continuous assembly and reassembly that draws on resources external to the brain.
For another: the kinds of materials available to “think with” affect the nature and quality of the thought that can be produced.
And last: the capacity to think well — that is, to be intelligent — is not a fixed property of the individual but rather a shifting state that is dependent on access to extra-neural resources and the knowledge of how to use them.
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The Emerging Science of Thinking with the Whole World Beyond the Brain
Thinking outside the brain means skillfully engaging entities external to our heads - the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of the other people around us - drawing them into our own mental processes
By reaching beyond the bra...
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The Reduction Of The Mind
Even our metaphors for the mind have taken us further and further from our essential nature as creatures shaped by our environment and our interactions with other creatures, dishonouring Rachel Carson's science-rooted poetic insight that "there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural uni...
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Interoception - Our 8th Sense
One major aspect of this extended mind is our capacity for interoception — an awareness of the internal sensations of the body that gives us a kind of non-conscious knowledge, which we might term intuition but which is rooted in concrete embodied experience and somatic pattern-recognitio...
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Benefits Of Our Interoceptive Sense
When a potentially relevant pattern is detected, it’s our interoceptive faculty that tips us off: with a shiver or a sigh, a quickening of the breath or a tensing of the muscles. The body is rung like a bell to alert us to this useful and otherwise inaccessible information. Though we typically th...
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The Magpie in the Mind: The Emerging Science of Thinking with the Whole World Beyond the Brain
themarginalian.org
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Our whole body is connected to the universe, and we have reduced it to a machine.
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Intelligence As A Toolbox
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