Cognitive extension and musical consciousness
Music and Consciousness 2 April 11, 2019 Lawrence M. Zbikowski
Abstract This chapter explores how the notion of cognitive extension, which is the idea that cognitive processes can be extended through material resources, reshapes the way we think about musical consciousness. A brief review of recent work on cognitive extension by Andy Clark is provided and linked with Edwin Hutchins’s idea of distributed cognition. Examples of cognitive extension from...