Distributed cognition

The idea that cognitive processes are not confined to an individual’s mind, but are distributed across the individual, other people, tools, and the wider environment.

Cognition, in this view, emerges from coordination between individuals, artifacts, and environmental structures.

• [?] How do we determine the boundaries of a distributed cognitive system?
• [?] Is distributed cognition compatible with individual minds having coherent beliefs, desires and intentions?
• [?] What are the implications of distributed cognition for ideas of responsibility, agency, and autonomy?
• [?] How can we design tools, technologies, and environments to support distributed cognitive processes?
• [&] See also: Edwin Hutchins’ Cognition in the Wild (1995)

Tags: epistemics

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