Summary of Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.

#2 Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via multiple pathways to a structure in the brain called the insula. Some individuals are interoceptive champions, able to determine when their heart beats, while others are interoceptive duds, unable to feel the rhythm.

#3 We are constantly collecting and storing information about the world around us, and this process is what allows us to recognize and understand patterns. We are not able to articulate the content of our non-conscious knowledge, but it is still there.

#4 We are constantly using information that we acquired nonconsciously. We are not aware that these searches are taking place, but our interoceptive faculty alerts us when a potentially relevant pattern is detected.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 2, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669355212

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Some people may be better at listening to their bodies and getting good judgments than others. The best financial traders are not necessarily the most intelligent, but rather those who are the most sensitive to interoceptive signals.

#2

Interoception is the awareness of the inner state of the body. It is generated in places all over the body, and then travels via multiple pathways to a structure in the brain called the insula. Some individuals are interoceptive champions, able to determine when their heart beats, while others are interoceptive duds, unable to feel the rhythm.

#3

We are constantly collecting and storing information about the world around us, and this process is what allows us to recognize and understand patterns. We are not able to articulate the content of our non-conscious knowledge, but it is still there.

#4

We are constantly using information that we acquired nonconsciously. We are not aware that these searches are taking place, but our interoceptive faculty alerts us when a potentially relevant pattern is detected.

#5

The body not only allows us access to information that is more complex than what our conscious minds can handle, but it also marshals this information at a pace that is far quicker than our conscious minds can handle.

#6

The body scan is a meditation technique that helps us become more aware of our internal signals. It trains us to observe these sensations with interest and equanimity, and to name them. This allows us to begin to regulate them.

#7

The practice of affect labeling, like the body scan, is a form of mental training intended to get us into the habit of noting and naming the sensations that arise in our bodies. Our bodies can be more rational than our brains, as they are not subject to the cognitive biases that so often distort our conscious thought.

#8

The bias displayed by the non-meditators in the Virginia Tech study is just one of many catalogued

Reviews for Summary of Annie Murphy Paul's The Extended Mind

[dcl · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent summary. Included a lot of terms I needed to google for clarification but that resulted in me putting every point in this summary into my own words in my Obsidian PKM to reinforce the learning.