The Parity Principle
Inga remembers the museum's address and goes. Otto, whose biological memory falters, consults his notebook and goes. Clark and Chalmers argue: for all relevant functional purposes, Otto's notebook is part of his memory.
Parity: if a process inside the skull counts as cognition, a relevantly similar process outside the skull counts too. The boundary is functional, not anatomical.
Adams & Aizawa object: causal contribution is not constitution. Your car helps you arrive; it is not part of your mind. Genuine cognition requires intrinsic, non-derived content.
Four cases follow. At each, decide: does this resource extend the mind, or merely assist it?
The Four Cases
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The Landscape of Positions
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