New!Websites for Authors
Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
New!Websites for Authors
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, Andy Clark

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

Andy Clark

Paperback
Regular price$38.99With free membership trial$19.5050% off your first book+ Free shipping
In Stock– Ships within one business day

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn't happen only in our heads but that "certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world." The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, Supersizing the Mind offers both a tour of the emerging cognitive landscape and a sustained argument in favor of a conception of mind that is extended rather than "brain-bound." The importance of this new perspective is profound. If our minds themselves can include aspects of our social and physical environments, then the kinds of social and physical environments we create can reconfigure our minds and our capacity for thought and reason.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 31st, 2010
  • Pages: 318
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.53in - 5.69in - 0.70in - 0.98lb
  • EAN: 9780199773688
  • Categories: • Movements - Humanism• Cognitive Psychology & Cognition• Mind & Body

About the Author

Andy Clark is Professor of Philosophy, Edinburgh University. Author of Being There, and Natural Born Cyborgs.

More books by Andy Clark

Book Cover for: The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Bad Loon Rising, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Lawyer Wellness Is NOT An Oxymoron: Why Tomorrow's Top Lawyers Must Embrace Wellness Today-And What You Need to Do to Be One of Them, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Fighting Deindustrialisation: Scottish Women's Factory Occupations, 1981-1982, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: Loving Elliott: A Fitting Tribute to Undying Love, Andy Clark
Book Cover for: A Little Saw: A Workshopshed Guide to Cutting Tools, Andy Clark

What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Annie Murphy Paul
Annie Murphy Paul
@anniemurphypaul
2 years

Annie Murphy Paul is a science writer and author.

@magdasmink @SystemSunday Thanks for thinking of me, Magda 😉 It would be unseemly for me to recommend my own book, so I'll recommend Andy Clark's "Supersizing the Mind."

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte
@fortelabs
3 years

The Second Brain Guy | Learn how to build one for yourself: https://t.co/vPhQg4soKp | Writing: https://t.co/x2KgFyuwlk | Videos: https://t.co/KkZYQItAvX

The concept of “extended cognition” has been popularized in 3 stages: 1998: The Extended Mind (paper by Andy Clark & David Chalmers 2010: Supersizing the Mind (book by Andy Clark) 2021: The Extended Mind (book by Annie Murphy Paul) My book will add the “how-to”

twitter.com
Mentioner image for: Alice Albrecht
Alice Albrecht
@AliceAlbrecht
4 years

Founder/CEO @recollect_ai. Creator of things that weren’t before. Now equal parts cognitive (neuro)science and ML. She/Her. We're hiring!

@MannyMoss Have you read "Supersizing the mind"? Andy Clark might be a good perspective/inroad.

twitter.com

What people are saying

See more