“In this way we appreciate that technology extends not only what we can do. It also extends what we are. Our minds bleed out of…
“In this way we appreciate that technology extends not only what we can do. It also extends what we are. Our minds bleed out of our heads, onto the paper, into the world. The philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers (of the University of Edinburgh and New York University, respectively) frame the issue this way: Where do you stop and where does the rest of the world begin? There doesn’t seem to be any principled reason to think the stuff going on inside our heads is privileged in comparison with the stuff we write on paper. Both are necessary for the kinds of thoughts we have, for the kinds of thinking and problems that interest us.”— Noë, Alva. Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2015.