{"product_id":"supersizing-the-mind-andy-clark-9780195333213","title":"Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension","description":"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 \u003cem\u003eSupersizing the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 that promiscuously criss-cross the boundaries of brain, body and world.\" The pen and paper of Feynman's thought are just such feedback loops, physical machinery that shape the flow of thought and enlarge the boundaries of mind. Drawing upon recent work in psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, human-computer systems, and beyond, \u003cem\u003eSupersizing the Mind\u003c\/em\u003e offers both a tour of the emerging cognitive landscape and a sustained argument in favor of a conception of mind that is extended rather than \"brain-bound.\" The importance of this new perspective is profound. If our minds themselves can include aspects of our social and physical environments, then the kinds of social and physical environments we create can reconfigure our minds and our capacity for thought and reason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andy Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195333217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195333213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2008 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/12\/2009 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2009","brand":"Andy Clark","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086385852671,"sku":"9780195333213","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7025b469-4211-4a1a-aea0-66aa0174c265.jpg?v=1769094376","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/supersizing-the-mind-andy-clark-9780195333213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}