Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.
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...Andy Clark has made a compelling argument that the minds of highly evolved cognitive agents extend into their environments and include tools, symbols, and other artifacts that serve as external substrates for representing, structuring, and performing mental operations (Clark, 2008)....
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...2000), or extended cognition will have a ready explanation (Clark 2008)....
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...…argument others and I have long advanced is that people interact and create external structure when thinking because: Through interaction it is easier to process more efficiently and more effectively than by working inside the head alone (Clark 2008; Kirsh 1995, 1996, 2009; Kirsh and Maglio 1994)....
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...D. Kirsh (&) Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA e-mail: kirsh@ucsd.edu Anyone who believes in situated (Robbins and Ayedede 2009), distributed (Hollan et al. 2000), or extended cognition will have a ready explanation (Clark 2008)....
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...If this seems to grant the theory of extended mind (Clark 2008) too much support add the word ‘managing’ as in ‘much cognition involves managing external epistemic activity’....
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...The burden of this section is to expand on the idea of thinking with things beyond its usual interpretation as computational off-loading, a topic that I believe has been well covered in discussions of situated cognition [Clark 1997; Kirsh 2009a] and external cognition [Clark 2008; Scaife and Rogers 1996]....
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...…of this section is to expand on the idea of thinking with things beyond its usual interpretation as computational off-loading, a topic that I believe has been well covered in discussions of situated cognition [Clark 1997; Kirsh 2009a] and external cognition [Clark 2008; Scaife and Rogers 1996]....
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...Clark resists using persistence as a criterion which distinguishes external cognitive components from mere environmental resources (Clark 2007, 2008)....
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...As he rightly emphasises, the real value of these tightly coupled external resources is that they are functionally distinct from, but complementary to, internal resources (see also Clark 2007, 2008; Menary 2010)....
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...See, for example, (Clark 2007, 2008; Clark and Chambers 1998; Dennett 2000; Menary 2010; Sutton 2006; Sterelny 2010; Wilson 1994)....
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...But he thinks it is more illuminating and insightful to see some resources as genuine constituents of human minds (Clark 2007, 2008)....
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