Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). The Extended Mind. Analysis, 58(1), 7–19.
1. Introduction
2. Extended Cognition
3. Active Externalism
4. From Cognition To Mind
5. Beyond The Outer Limits
1998: uh, windows 98?
The work is broken into 5 sections.
"We advocate a very different sort of externalism: an active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes."
"...the individual brain performs some operations, while others are delegated to manipulations of external media."
"Epistemic actions":
"alter the world so as to aid and augment cognitive processes such as recognition and search."
"Pragmatic actions":
"alter the world because some physical change is desirable for its own sake (e.g., putting cement into a hole in a dam)."
"Our thesis is that this sort of coupled process counts equally well as a cognitive process, whether or not it is wholly in the head."
active externalism:
Concentrats on coupling between relevant external features and human organisms. The relevant parts of the world are in the loop.
The application of this work being whatever "counts" is being applied towards by the thesis.