More than just a cool stencil

Our blog shares its name with a remarkable branch of cognitive science!

"Distributed Cognition," to quote the eponymous Wikipedia article, proposes that "human knowledge and cognition are not confined to the individual." In contrast to the widespread focus on the performance of the individual mind, DC understands cognition as a social practice.

And here's the real quietus -- knowledge is not even confined to the collective cognition of human participants. Tools, like this blog, can be repositories of cognition with which we all interact.

I don't know about you, but I am wiping the froth from my mouth already.

One of the fertile minds that hath sired this attractive baby (if you'll allow me some intellectual favoritism, which is quite un-DCish) is that of none other than UCSD's own Edwin Hutchins. A mighty fortress is our alma mater.

To where our distributed cognition takes us, friends.

Grant