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Thinking Beyond the Brain. Educating and Building from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition

Author(s): Wheeler, Michael

Abstract

According to the hypothesis of extended cognition (ExC), our thinking is not just happening in the brain but spreads out to the beyond-the-skin environment. Following an introduction to the basic idea of extended cognition, this essay explores that idea in relation to two issues: first, it looks at the hybrid education in an increasingly networked world; second, at the situating of organic cognition within so-called “intelligent buildings.” It is argued that we should understand these contemporary developments as the latest realizations of an age-old human ontology of dynamically assembled, organic-technological cognitive systems, since it is of our very nature to enhance our raw organic intelligence by forming shifting human-arte-fact coalitions that operate over various time-scales.

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Wheeler, Michael: Thinking Beyond the Brain. Educating and Building from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition. In: Pasquinelli, Matteo: Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas. Lüneburg: meson press 2015, S. 85-104. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1312.
@INCOLLECTION{Wheeler2015,
 author = {Wheeler, Michael},
 title = {Thinking Beyond the Brain. Educating and Building from the Standpoint of Extended Cognition},
 year = 2015,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1312},
 editor = {Pasquinelli, Matteo},
 address = {Lüneburg},
 booktitle = {Alleys of Your Mind. Augmented Intelligence and Its Traumas},
 pages = {85--104},
 publisher = {meson press},
 isbn = {978-3-95796-066-5},
}
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