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Andy Clark

Clark & Chalmers proposed the parity argument for extended mind1. Substances, screens, and inner speech are all extended-mind elements.2.

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Clark & Chalmers proposed the parity argument for extended mind

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“Clark & Chalmers (1998), "The Extended Mind," *Analysis* 58(1): 7–19”
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Substances, screens, and inner speech are all extended-mind elements.

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“substances, screens, and inner speech are all extended-mind elements”
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The extended mind literature is small and scattered in the context of addiction.

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“This space exists but is small and scattered.”
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These are things people say about Andy Clark that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.

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"The paper's framing appears genuinely original within the extended-mind literature."
Unattributed assertion · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
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Disputed
"humans have *always* offloaded cognitive function to environmental scaffolds"
Asserted by Andy Clark · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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2015
2015
publication of Surfing Uncertainty