Broadly speaking this thesis asserts that our minds are ‘hybrid’ entities dynamically assembled from continuous and dense interactions between brains, bodies, and environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, cultural practices, norms, group structures, or social institutions. In a way a breaks the hegemony of skin and the skull and sees human as the creatures ‘of the world’. In the present section, I shall first attempt to analyse the extended mind thesis. How it has been understood and interpreted by analytics? In the later course of the discussion I shall also look into the implications of extended mind theory for the idea of group mind. If mind is not in the head, can it be said to remove one of the major hurdles in accepting the idea of group
Broadly speaking this thesis asserts that our minds are ‘hybrid’ entities dynamically assembled from continuous and dense interactions between brains, bodies, and environmental structures such as symbols, tools, artifacts, cultural practices, norms, group structures, or social institutions. In a way a breaks the hegemony of skin and the skull and sees human as the creatures ‘of the world’. In the present section, I shall first attempt to analyse the extended mind thesis. How it has been understood and interpreted by analytics? In the later course of the discussion I shall also look into the implications of extended mind theory for the idea of group mind. If mind is not in the head, can it be said to remove one of the major hurdles in accepting the idea of group