Andy Clark - Bryant McGill

# Andy Clark **Andy Clark** is a philosopher of mind whose work on embodied cognition, predictive processing and the [[wiki/Extended Mind Thesis|Extended Mind Thesis]] examines how cognition can be distributed across brain, body, tools and environment. ## Extended mind In the classic argument developed with [[wiki/David Chalmers|David Chalmers]], an external resource can become constitutive of cognition when it is reliably available, automatically trusted and functionally integrated into thought. The thesis does not imply that every device is conscious or that every network forms one mind. ## Corpus route [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] uses the extended-mind lineage to place artificial intelligence inside the longer history of cognition moving beyond the anatomical boundary. ## See Also [[wiki/Extended Mind Thesis|Extended Mind Thesis]], [[wiki/Cognitive Niche Construction|Cognitive Niche Construction]], [[wiki/Human-Machine Symbiosis|Human-Machine Symbiosis]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “Artificial intelligence is not the first moment in which human cognition escaped the anatomical perimeter of the human animal; it is the moment at which that process begins to acquire **autonomy, recursion, scale and speed**.” > **— Bryant McGill**, *We Cannot Un-Strike the Match. There Is No Safety. There Is No Retreat, 2026* [[reminders/Extended Mind/AI Gives Externalized Human Cognition Autonomy and Scale by Bryant McGill|AI Gives Externalized Human Cognition Autonomy and Scale by Bryant McGill]] > “From writing and printing to the mechanisation of manufacturing, technology design and use has long been entwined with the evolution of human capabilities, with implications for individuals and society.” > **— the Royal Society**, *2020, Digital Technologies and Human Transformations* [[reminders/Extended Mind/Technology Has Long Been Entwined With Human Capabilities by the Royal Society|Technology Has Long Been Entwined With Human Capabilities by the Royal Society]]