What is Cognition? Extended Cognition and the Criterion of the Cognitive
Social Brain, Distributed Mind April 29, 2010 Mark Rowlands
According to the thesis of the extended mind, at least some cognitive processes extend into the cognizing subject's environment in the sense that they are composed of processes of manipulation, exploitation, and transformation performed by that subject on suitable environmental structures. In contrast, according to the thesis of the embedded mind, the manipulation, exploitation, and...