Examples Of Active Externalism

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In “The Extended Mind,” Andy Clark and David Chalmers’ argue for what they call “active externalism.” This theory holds that the meaning of mental content is not just in our heads, but external to the mind where environment plays an active role in deriving mental processes. As part of this lengthy paper, Clark and Chalmers propose a theory of memory that holds that memory is a kind of mental storage recorded in the mind, as if the facts were recorded in a notebook. As that in my term paper I will be constructing my own theory of memory in response to this one, in this paper, I will explain Clark and Chalmers’ theory of memory by explaining their example of Otto and Inga.
According to Clark and Chalmers’ memory is an example of an extended

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