Technology is an extended phenotype, outsourced cognition
The “extended mind” thesis is by Andy Clark and David Chalmers in which objects within the environment function as part of the mind. The mind, body and environment are seen as a unprincipled distinction, a coupled system. Our minds are a dance between our brains, environment, and tools.
Amber Case, a cyborg anthropologist, says that basically our smartphone devices gives us “technologically mediated telepathy”. Like sending text messages sending your thoughts through folds of time and space by just a few key strokes and sending it instantly at the speed of light, to connect and share to the global conversation through social networks, to record real life as it happens, getting universal access to information, creating wormholes at the ease of a small handheld device.
Richard Dawkins talks about the “extended phenotype”. Examples of that would be like a nest for birds or a mound for termites. Technology is like an extended phenotype; not separate from us, but part of us. Technology connects us to us, an outsourced cognition.














