ANNIE MURPHY PAUL: We don’t think with our brains, we think with the world!

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Annie Murphy Paul (US science writer and author of The Extended Mind) recently came out with a bold theory about how we think – we don’t think with our brains, instead, we think with our bodies, feelings, physical spaces and other minds. Her work on the topic won awards, was presented as a TED talk viewed by more than 2.6 million people and has been described by New York Times’ Ezra Klein as having “radical implications”.

In this conversation we discuss how our bodies can read other people’s minds and solve problems when our brains can't, why schools and workplaces stunt our thinking, how to get our clearest thoughts and why all those productivity hacks are…wrong.

I’ll continue the conversation over on my Substack where I’ll share more detail on how I loop.

SHOW NOTES

Annie's book, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain is available now.

I refer to my conversation with Dr Jill Bolte Taylor about right-brain thinking, listen here.

And my interview with Tyson Yunkaporta that covers in detail, Indigenous complex thinking.

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