Extended mind — Thinking Outside the Brain.

Part 0

We think outside the brain since we were born. Our body uses much more than the brain to make decisions; it is a big topic for cognition science.

The beginning — People extended by People.

Baby is highly dependent on the care and knowledge of parents. While we grow, we observe, learn, and accumulate knowledge from others and our experiences. It is natural. We always think together. We must find a safe space to do it ourselves to hear our voices.

We invent tools to communicate better with each other

For me entire history of humanity is a history of talking to each other.

From family to a circle near the fire where hunters share their knowledge and legends, we got to a world of interconnected humans, and now you read my article on a screen, or maybe your AI assistant will read it for you, and you will have excellent writing for your presentation )) We invent so many tools to extend ourselves.

The revolution was started

• with the invention of language. We began to cooperate and talk to each other.
• Then somebody made a picture of a cave to tell a story.

© # A Journey to the Oldest Cave Paintings in the World

• First written language — pictures start encoding any kind of information

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• printed books — the earliest mechanically printed full-length book was the Gutenberg Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany c. 1455 by Johann Henne zum Gensfleisch zur Laden, called zu Gutenberg (c. 1398–1468).

• Personal note-taking and renaissance © Information and Memory. We get personal external storage and a reliable tool not only for memorizing things but also for forgetting. We free our brain from the necessity to remember rewriting.
• Konrad Zuse, in 1938 in his garage assembled first machine and revolutions of machine extended mind started the new wave. This story you probably already know
• Personal PC 1973 Kenbak-1 John Blankenbaker’s Kenbak-1, winner of The Computer Museum’s “Earliest PC Contest,” used small- and medium-scale integrated circuits, had switches and lights for input/output, and came with 256 bytes of memory. Kenbak Corporation folded in 1973 after selling only 40 computers.

• The web 1990 . Read my Pre Web , Web1, Web2 , web3 , web5 , web7 and all hundreds of future web X explained in 12 Toots
• 1990, our best friend, the smartphone

• The AI era is on a way . Now we have CharGPT. LLMs and AI friends