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I'm reading this cue from my laptop because even if I'd thought about what I wanted to say I'm useless at

remembering a sequence of sentences. I'm entirely dependent on my laptop for this

sort of job and for many others. I can't rely on my mind alone. But according

to Andy Clark, my laptop may be regarded as an extension of my mind.

Andy Clark, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Hi, straight to be here.

The topic we're going to focus on is the extended mind.

What do you mean by the extended mind?

Okay, so the extended mind was the title of a paper that Dave Charmers and I wrote back in 1998.

And the idea in that paper was that the human mind or indeed perhaps minds in general

don't have to end at the limits of skin and skull. So the thought was that perhaps our mind can sometimes include

bio-external structures and events. Well that's really intriguing. What is a

bio-external structure? Yeah so that makes it sound pretty fancy but all that we had

in mind in that paper really was very familiar things like perhaps the use of a pen, paper, a notebook.

That paper, the extended mind paper,

revolved around a particular thought experiment

that involved two people, Inga and Otto.

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