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Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.
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Networks of the Brain
TL;DR: Models of Network Growth All networks, whether they are social, technological, or biological, are the result of a growth process, and many continue to grow for prolonged periods of time, continually modifying their connectivity structure throughout their entire existence.
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Thinking with external representations
TL;DR: Seven ways external representations enhance cognitive power are discussed: they change the cost structure of the inferential landscape; they provide a structure that can serve as a shareable object of thought; they facilitate re-representation; they are often a more natural representation of structure than mental representations; and they lower the cost of controlling thought—they help coordinate thought.
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Organizing Thoughts and Connecting Brains: Material Practices and the Transition from Individual to Group-Level Prospective Sensemaking
Ileana Stigliani,Davide Ravasi +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a process model that accounts for the interplay between conversational and material practices in the transition from individual to group-level sensemaking, and unpack how the materialization of cognitive work supports the collective construction of new shared understandings.
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Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design
TL;DR: The theory of embodied cognition can provide HCI practitioners and theorists with new ideas about interaction and new principles for better designs, and these ideas have major implications for interaction design, especially the design of tangible, physical, context aware, and telepresence systems.
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Minds - Extended or Scaffolded
Kim Sterelny,Kim Sterelny +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that extended mind cases are limiting cases of environmental scaffolding, and while the extended mind picture is not false, the niche construction model is a more helpful framework for understanding human action.
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Armed With Information: Cognition and Consciousness and the Octopus Nervous System
TL;DR: This thesis is for research or private study purposes only, and the author's right to be identified as the author of this thesis is recognized.
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Striving for Modernity: Layout and Abstracts in the Biomedical Literature
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Animism and Artefact: The entangled Agencies of a DIY [Do-It-Yourself] Maker
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History, Philosophy, and Actuality of the Utopian View of Technology: On Pierre Musso’s Critique of Network Ideology
TL;DR: Dorrestijn as discussed by the authors outlines the advantages of Musso's contribution, putting together an essay on the utopian, dystopian or ambivalent interpretations of technical mediation, while developing a dual critique of the appropriation of the notions of "network" and "utopia".
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Narratives about Cyborgization in the Context of Technoevolution
TL;DR: In this article, the author analyzes three cultural narratives regarding human cyborgization, i.e., engineering-pragmatic, biological-evolutionary and cultural-humanistic.