Last week I figured out what was distributed cognition:
1. Human brain was unable to handle everything in mind calculation, thus it needed tools and aids. It needed pencil and paper, etc, to extend its ability.
2. Sometimes tools and aids became part of cognition, this was especially true for sophiscated matters. Without them, a cognition process would break down. Eg, I lost my data when a hard drive failure occured, I was unable to continue my contemplation before I made a recovery of previous data.
3. Social aspect (environment) brought about impact on individual cognition and group cognition. When in Rome, you think as Rome thinks. (Wikipedia: 1980s Edwin Hutchins proposed distributed cognition, one of the insights was taken from Vygotsky who emphasized social aspects of cognition)
I wonder what is NOT DISTRIBUTED COGNITION.
If tools were part of distributed cognition, then no tool was more powerful than the Internet which connected people around the globe. Cloud Computing is the product of it. Maybe, advanced artificial intelligence is in its way.
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