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Re:I have seen the future and I am opposed by gwern on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:22PM (#2217874)
It's a perfectly reasonable thesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Mind). Do you have any objection beside some transitory subjective distaste?
Re:I have seen the future and I am opposed by leot on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:20PM (#2218155)
In fact, Don Norman is among the world's most qualified to say this kind of thing: he was founding Chair of UC San Diego's Cognitive Science department, where (among other theses) the notion of distributed cognition was developed (during Norman's time as Chair).