The extended-mind thesis (EMT), usually attributed to Andy Clark and David Chalmers, proposes that in specific kinds of mind-body-world interaction there emerges an extended cognitive system incorporating such extracranial supports as pencils, papers, computers, and other objects and environments in the world. In Feeling Extended, Douglas Robinson accepts the thesis, but argues that the usual debate over EMT-which centers on whether mind really (literally, actually, materially) extends to body and world or only seems to-oversimplifies the issue. When we say that mind feels as if it extends, Robinson argues, what extends is precisely feeling-and mind, insofar as it arises out of feeling.
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