Clark and Chalmers present a thought experiment to illustrate the environment's role in connection to the mind. The fictional characters Otto and Inga are both travelling to a museum simultaneously.

Mar 14, 2007 · Following their discussion of the Inga-Otto thought experiment, Andy Clark and David Chalmers propose the following necessary and sufficient conditions for what information is to be a …

The differences between Otto's case and Inga's are striking, but they are superficial. By using the "belief" notion in a wider way, it picks out something more akin to a natural kind.

Take “Otto” and “Inga” for example. They are both travelling to a museum simultaneously. Otto has Alzheimer’s, and has written the directions to the museum on his notebook. On the other side, Inga …

In section 3, these two concepts are applied to the central thought experiment, the Inga/Otto case. It will be shown that justifying the extended mind thesis by reference to simplicity may cause trouble, …

Nov 24, 2022 · To argue for their radical conclusion, they deploy two ingenious thought experiments involving art-loving New Yorkers. The first case centers on a woman called Inga, and the second …

This article is a critical approach to the main ideas of the paper "The Extended Mind", published by Clark and Chamers and to some further comments on it. It begins by highlighting the …

The only difference between them arises from the fact that Inga’s belief was stored in her biological mind while Otto’s belief was stored in his extended mind.

The main argument thus takes the form of a challenge: show us why the case of Otto and his notebook (thus elaborated) is not simply that of an unusual realizer: an extended physical vehicle for a set of …

Dec 28, 2011 · For more than one decade, Andy Clark has defended the now-famous extended mind thesis, the idea that cognitive processes leak into the world. In this paper I analyse Clark’s theoretical …