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Abstract
Everybody knows that humans are cultural animals. Although this fact is universally acknowledged, many opportunities to exploit it are overlooked. In this article, I propose shifting our attention from local examples of extended mind to the cultural-cognitive ecosystems within which human cognition is embedded. I conclude by offering a set of conjectures about the features of cultural-cognitive ecosystems.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to Charles Goodwin, Tyler Marghetis, Will Newsome, the members of the DCOG-HCI laboratory at UCSD, and two anonymous reviewers for critical comments on an earlier draft of this paper. The research on airline flight decks was supported by a contract from the Boeing Commercial Airplane Group.