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"My favorite metaphor is the spider and its web. So, extended cognition researchers have been showing - there's new research every day pretty much - that a spider's cognition is not limited to its brain or its body. A spider's cognition extends into its web.
We are ultimately only 'self' through other. We're in a constant intaking of otherness to very materially, metabolically, build our bodies. Out minds are not in our heads. Our minds are territories we inhabit; they are territories that multiple beings inhabit.
So that's why the therapeutic model sometimes seems too small for me. Like the, mind is a territory that many beings are inside of. How can two humans in a sterile room solve the problem that is constituted by a whole web of wild kin?" - Sophie Strand (source https://t.co/FYeQsefR3G)