The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark | The New Yorker

The tools we use to help us think—from language to smartphones—may be part of thought itself.

Save this story Save this story Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. Where does the mind end and the world begin? Is the mind locked inside its skull, sealed in with skin, or does it expand outward, merging with things and places and other minds that it thinks with? What if there are objects outside—a pen and paper, a phone—that serve the same function as parts of the brain, enabling it to calculate or remember? You might say that those are obviously not part of the mind, because they aren’t in the head, but that would be to beg the

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