The Extended Mind exhorts us to use our entire bodies, our surroundings and our relationships to 'think outside the brain.'.

Cognitive scientists have since explored the philosophers’ question in several related fields, including embodied, situated and distributed cognition—respectively, how thought is shaped by bodily experience, physical environments and social exchange. In her book The Extended Mind, science writer Annie Murphy Paul takes on each in turn.

[Paul] engagingly weaves together diverse narratives to explain this form of intelligence.

Science journalist Paul pushes back against the idea that brains are 'a cordoned-off space where cognition happens' in this thoroughly reported look at myriad types of thinking.

A look at the science behind the parts of our consciousness and ideation that lie outside the body.