Malafouris proposes that the mind is not only constrained to what is inside the skull, but it is actually made up of all the objects it interacts with. A calculator becomes part of the mind, a space, an environment, as it is actively used to think.
**Thoughts**
This reminds me of the idea that [[Artificial intelligence can augment human intelligence by providing new primitives for thought]] from the paper on Artificial Intelligence Augmentation, which argues that AI can augment the human mind.
It also reminds me of Gordon Pask's idea that conversation extends the mind of, and this serves as an interesting segway for the [[Dialogic Creative Artificial Intelligence (DCAI)]]
**From**
[[How things shape the mind (book)]]