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