{"id":172664,"date":"2023-09-23T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-fascinating-science-of-how-we-think-not-with-the-brain-but-with-the-world"},"modified":"2023-09-23T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T02:22:56","slug":"the-fascinating-science-of-how-we-think-not-with-the-brain-but-with-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-fascinating-science-of-how-we-think-not-with-the-brain-but-with-the-world","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-fascinating-science-of-how-we-think-not-with-the-brain-but-with-the-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (public library), Annie Murphy Paul explores the most thrilling frontiers of this growing understanding, fusing a century of scientific studies with millennia of first-hand experience from the lives and letters of great artists, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Challenging our cultural inheritance of thinking that thinking takes place only inside the brain, she illuminates the myriad ways in which we \u201cuse the world to think\u201d \u2014 from the sensemaking language of gestures that we acquire as babies long before we can speak concepts to the singular fuel that time in nature provides for the brain\u2019s most powerful associative network.<\/p>\n<p>Paul distills this recalibration of understanding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinking outside the brain means skillfully engaging entities external to our heads \u2014 the feelings and movements of our bodies, the physical spaces in which we learn and work, and the minds of the other people around us \u2014 drawing them into our own mental processes. By reaching beyond the brain to recruit these \u201cextra-neural\u201d resources, we are able to focus more intently, comprehend more deeply, and create more imaginatively \u2014 to entertain ideas that would be literally unthinkable by the brain alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (public library), Annie Murphy Paul explores the most thrilling frontiers of this growing understanding, fusing a century of scientific studies with millennia of first-hand experience from the lives and letters of great artists, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Challenging our cultural inheritance of thinking that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}