Extended mind
Cognitive processes can literally include suitably integrated tools and environments.
What it claims
The extended mind thesis challenges the assumption that cognition ends at the skin or skull. External resources, when integrated in the right way, can be genuine parts of a cognitive system rather than merely aids to an internal process. Clark and Chalmers's parity principle (1998) asks why a process would cease to count as cognitive solely because it occurs outside the head.
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Key thinkers
Andy Clark · David Chalmers · Edwin Hutchins · Richard Menary