I’ve been enjoying these lately. Better than the news
Well go figure.
That’s got me all twitter bated.
Bet you, I’m going to enjoy this one. (just please no more Pinker, unless he decides to put on a horse hair shirt 
signed,
your friendly, if terrified, tree hugger.
Oh, I need to start another thread. I sort of have another dog these days, sort of long story, eventually the muse will strike.
Bingo,
Looks like my next book. Thank you Lausten,
… A century later and half a millennium after Descartes cleaved Western consciousness into its disembodied dualism, we are only just beginning to reckon with the growing understanding that consciousness is a full-body phenomenon, perhaps even a beyond-body phenomenon.
In The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain (public library), Annie Murphy Paul explores the most thrilling frontiers of this growing understanding, fusing a century of scientific studies with millennia of first-hand experience from the lives and letters of great artists, scientists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Challenging our cultural inheritance of thinking that thinking takes place only inside the brain, she illuminates the myriad ways in which we “use the world to think” — from the sensemaking language of gestures that we acquire as babies long before we can speak concepts to the singular fuel that time in nature provides for the brain’s most powerful associative network. ….