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Sunday, February 16, 2014

CROWD SOURCING WORKS

Thank you all.  It is indeed H. L. Hunt.

Here is an interesting question that I am sure many have written about:  I know a number of things that I cannot at the moment recall, but with enough effort I can retrieve many of them from my memory.  For example, sometimes I cannot recall Donald Sutherland's name even though I can tell you the movies he was in and what he looks like.  There are also countless things I do not know and perhaps have never known that I can retrieve from Google in much less time than it takes me to recall one of the things I do know, such as, say, the capital of South Dakota.  Why should I not consider that vast store of information part of what I know? 

2 comments:

Andres said...

David Chalmers (and others) call this view 'the extended mind'. They defend this thesis in a number of papers. Here's in one of them: http://consc.net/papers/extended.html

Robert Paul Wolff said...

Thank you, Andres. I will take a look at it. I was certain it was an idea that had been much discussed.