Like, many years ago I read a book by Andy Clark called Natural Born Cyborgs that blew my tiny mind. One of the things it confidently (and I think correctly) asserted is that humans externalize cognition into their environment in a lot of ways, from clocks to familiarity with the organization of accustomed physical spaces.
I believe this. I do! And that means I believe cognitive outsourcing to the environment is at least sometimes innocuous or even desirable.
Dorothea Salo
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