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Extended mind and artifactual autobiographical memory
Author(s) -
Heersmink Richard
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12353
Subject(s) - autobiographical memory , episodic memory , cognitive psychology , object (grammar) , embodied cognition , lifelog , psychology , semantic memory , cognitive science , computer science , artificial intelligence , cognition , neuroscience , recall , human–computer interaction
In this paper, I describe how artifacts and autobiographical memory are integrated into new systemic wholes, allowing us to remember our personal past in a more reliable and detailed manner. After discussing some empirical work on lifelogging technology, I elaborate on the dimension of autobiographical dependency, which is the degree to which we depend on an object to be able to remember a personal experience. When this dependency is strong, we integrate information in the embodied brain and in an object to reconstruct an autobiographical memory. In such cases, autobiographical memory is extended or distributed.