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Trivially Important Semantic Context

Colin Wright
Jun 20, 2023
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Trivially Important Semantic Context

Colin Wright
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March 21, 2023

The "extended mind thesis" posits, among other things, that our minds are not limited to our brains or even our bodies, but instead extend into the tools we use and even the spaces we occupy. This isn't the sort of thing you can prove: it's more a framing of how cognition occurs and where we tend to draw the line between "self" and "not-self."

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