http://mindhacks.com/2009/06/22/tooling-up-the-body/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/06/22/tooling-up-the-body/#comment-5569 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:53:47 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/tooling-up-the-body/#comment-5569 Perhaps we have a similar response to “cognitive tools” such as our smart phones and GPS systems and the like. Instead of making our brains think faster, the cognitive tools may be training our thought processes to slow down – at least temporarily.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/06/22/tooling-up-the-body/#comment-5568 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:11:15 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/tooling-up-the-body/#comment-5568 I seem to recall learning from a 1980′s or early 1990′s instructional video that one of the conclusions to come out of Cyc in the early days, was the idea that: When a man uses an electric razor to shave, the razor becomes part of the man. The researchers were not clear on whether the frame was correct or not.

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