This is philosophy bites with me, Nigel.
Warburton, and me, David Edmonds.
Philosophy bites is unfunded.
Please help us keep it going by subscribing or donating at www.philosophybytes.com.
or you can become a patron at Patreon.
I'm reading this cue from my laptop because even if I'd thought about what I wanted to say, I'm useless at remembering a sequence of sentences.
I'm entirely dependent on my laptop for this sort of job and for many others.
I can't rely on my mind alone.
But according to Andy Clark, my laptop may be regarded as an extension of my mind.
Andy Clark, welcome to philosophy bytes.
Hi.
It's great to be here.
The topic we're going to focus on is the extended mind.
What do you mean by the extended mind?
Okay, so the extended mind was the title of a paper that Dave Chalmers and I wrote back in 1998.
And the idea in that paper was that the human mind, or indeed perhaps minds in general, don't have to end at the limits of skin and skull.
So the thought was that perhaps our mind can sometimes include bio external structures and events.
Well, that's really intriguing.
What is a bio external structure?
Yeah, so that makes it sound pretty fancy.