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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199773688
• ISBN13: 9780199773688
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.5"