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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.

Mirko Farina
- 01 Jan 2010 - 
- Vol. 14
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This article is published in Humana.Mente.The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 787 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognition & Action (philosophy).

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"More Than Cool Reason Ever Comprehends": Shakespeare, Imagination and Distributed Auteurism in A Matter of Life and Death

TL;DR: In this article, a rehearsal scene from A Midsummer night's dream is used to contrast the British and American movie industries at the end of World War 2. But this rehearsal scene is not a representation of the actual production of the play.
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Health and homosexuality: a world-view.

David Skuse
TL;DR: The issue of the purpose of mental health law, which tends to relate to ‘risk’, and policies or laws that modify the ‘meaningful’ aspects of the social matrix in the promotion of mental well-being are raised.
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O n the Intimate Relationship between Man and Machine

TL;DR: In the 16th century, the human body was detached from the person, and turned into an object on the dissecting table as discussed by the authors, and the body became physically manipulable, could be separated into parts, and ascribed with dedicated, non-personal functions.
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Instance theory predicts information theory: Episodic uncertainty as a determinant of keystroke dynamics.

TL;DR: A novel account that letter position and word length effects on keystroke dynamics reflect informational uncertainty about letters in those locations, rather than resource limited planning/buffering processes is proposed.
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From Content-Externalism to Vehicle-Externalism

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argues that content-externalism does not necessarily imply vehicle-existentialism, and that functionalism cannot reject the contentexternalist argument on these grounds without undercutting her own.
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