Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension

by Andy Clark

Book Overview

When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's notes, he saw it as a "record" of Feynman's work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that our thinking doesn't happen only in our heads but that "certain forms of human cognizing include inextricable tangles of feedback, feed-forward and feed-around loops: loops...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195333217
• ISBN13: 9780195333213
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"