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Environment: the physical and digital workspace…

Environment: the physical and digital workspace that actively participates in cognitive processing by competing for neural resources, shaping attention through affordances, and functioning as a component of cognition rather than just a context

Why This Is a Definition

This definition establishes environment as more than passive context - it defines how environments actively participate in cognition, compete for resources, and function as components of thinking rather than just containers, which directly connects to the extended mind thesis and Extended Cognition Thesis about cognitive processes being distributed across external artifacts.

Source Lessons

The environment shapes attention

Physical and digital environments either support or undermine your focus.

Externalize your thinking environment

Your physical and digital workspace is an externalization of your cognitive priorities. Design it deliberately, or it designs your thinking for you.

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Defines (7)

AxiomExtended Cognition Thesis AxiomPerception as Predictive Construction AxiomDual Coding Theory: Verbal and Visual Channels AxiomPerceptual Plasticity Through Training AxiomEmotion as Systematic Cognitive Modulator AxiomCognition Operates Through Dual Processing Systems AxiomConstrual Level Effects on Perception

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