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Analysis Advance Access published online on September 28, 2009
Analysis, doi:10.1093/analys/anp122
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The Mindsized Mashup Mind Isn’t Supersized After All

Susan A.J. Stuart

Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK s.stuart@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

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I rather like Andy Clark's book, Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension, but it certainly hasn’t put my mind at rest.1 As always Clark's writing is uncomplicated and energetic, managing to make everything, from the physiology of the moving body, through an analysis of the scaffolding role which, he maintains, is played by language, to the strategic use of representation, computation and control by the biological brain, both intelligible and interesting. And I have a great deal of sympathy with his main thesis: That we must consider the whole body, rather than merely the brain, as the locus where sensing and acting are synthesized and through which cognitive systems can engage with their world. But still I find that I have a couple of rather fundamental reservations, alongside a number of ancillary comments that arise from my own puzzlement with some – of what can at first . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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