They describe the idea as active externalism, based on the active role of the environment in driving cognitive processes. The first case centers on a woman called inga, and the second centers on a man called otto. Certainly, insofar as beliefs and desires are characterized by their explanatory roles, otto's and inga's cases seem to be on a par The essential causal dynamics of the two cases mirror each other precisely. 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, because ‘extended’ behavioural descriptions are likely to yield rather complicated explanations.
Chalmers and clark present a thought experiment to illustrate the environment’s role in connection to the mind Fictitious characters otto and inga are both travelling to a museum simultaneously, but otto has alzheimer’s and has written the directions down in a notebook. This is the inga vs otto thought experiment from chalmers and clark’s original 1998 paper Imagine there is a man named otto, who suffers from some memory impairment. In this essay, i will argue in support of their theory, that it is possible for cognition to extend beyond the mind, through notebooks and various technologies Firstly, i will explain the otto and inga thought experiment and active externalism.
Otto has the data written in his notebook, but he has to process it just as inga does Inga, more conveniently, has the data in her mind/brain, along with the processing apparatus which both have to use equivalently.
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