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The Extended Mind (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) ReviewRichard Menary has done a very good job! The books beginns with an contribution by philosophers Clark and Chalmers who coined the term "extended mind". What is their prototypical example? Think of Inga hearing from an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art recalling that the museum is on 53rd street. She uses her memory for recall and does what must be done: she walks to the MOMA on 53rd street. Now think of Otto who suffers from Alzheimer's and who forgot the adress. He asks his notebook which he carries with him everywhere. His memory is outside of his head but he uses his notebook in a way of special coupling. This coupling, Clark and Chalmes argue, is an example for the extension of cognition. It's not the notebook working as a cognitive system. No, both of them when coupled in this special way. - Here the debate starts. Well known authors in the cognitive field contribute. There is a fair and detailed discussion on what "coupling" means, on the role of active externalism, on cognitive integration, on the kind of meaning making implied here and on the mother-child-coupling when babies need being understood and are enabled only for utterances. So, what another researcher in the field, Ed Tronick, has termed "dual consciousness" and considered as very important in human development finds strong confirmation and engaged debate. The term "extended mind" or "extended cognition" has an ability to correct a failure of trivial neuroscientific reductionism. Mind is constituted in interaction with other minds. This volume presents a strong argument for those who cannot see mind emerging upward from brain, only. Mind in cooperation with other minds uses brains. This is an urgently needed complementary view. I can recommend this book to everyone interested in new developments of cognitive science, philosophhy and developmental psychology.
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