208 - The Extended Mind - Annie Murphy Paul

You Are Not So Smart

Science, Psychology, Brain, Business, Mental Health, Culture, Neuroscience, Mind, Health

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode we sit down with Annie Murphy Paul, the acclaimed science writer, whose new book, The Extended Mind is all about how the brain is part of systems, and it is those systems that constitute the mind. In other words, our minds are not, as she puts it, brainbound, but they extend to our computers, our notebooks, our friends and neighbors and colleagues and partners. The environments in which we move, natural and otherwise, deeply influence how we think, what we think, and what we CAN think, and in addition, everything the brain does becomes a reference for extended thinking, and these feedback loops extend what the mind can do.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:37.1	Oh, yes, also a live show in New York City at caveat, August 13th putting that together
0:42.3	right now.
0:43.3	Also a documentary series at Himalaya about what does the word genius really mean and
0:50.0	can you find genius within yourself created in others?
0:54.4	It's really great.
0:55.6	I've interviewed more than 35 people, experts, people with very high IQs, people who are
1:01.2	artistic savants, very much looking forward to sharing that with you very soon, and just
1:06.0	all sorts of other stuff.
1:07.0	I'll tell you all about it as it happens, let's get right into the show.
1:10.4	This is the Extended Mind with Annie Murphy Paul.
1:38.2	Welcome to the You Are Not So Smart Podcast episode 208.
2:00.7	In this episode we are sitting down with Annie Murphy Paul and it was a great honor and
2:05.6	an intense pleasure to welcome Annie onto the show because she's an acclaimed science
2:10.2	writer, one of the best and her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe,
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