374: Exploring the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul
“One of the things that’s always challenging is acknowledging that, in fact, the mind is not separable from the biology of the brain. I mean, that’s one of the reasons why I love neuroscience is because we have something tangible to study in the biology of the brain that can tell us something about something so intangible, like the mind.”
One of the fascinating things about neuroscience is that it gives us something tangible to study in the biology of the brain that can tell us something about the mind, which is so intangible. But what if that approach leaves us missing a big piece of the puzzle? What if the mind actually extends far beyond the biology of the body? Today, Indre is joined by Annie Murphy Paul, an acclaimed science writer, who makes this claim in her new book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain. Annie’s work has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing. She has held the Bernard Schwartz Fellowship and the Future Tense Fellowship at New America; currently, she is a fellow in New America’s Learning Sciences Exchange.
