Your Mind is Not Confined To A Body

Going beyond skull and skin as we venture towards the extended mind.

Simon Spichak
The Apeiron Blog
Published in
7 min readMay 16, 2021

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Head of a statue with wisps of smoke surrounding it
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Where is your mind? When I was younger, I’d imagine a smaller version of myself residing in a control room in my brain. This mini-homunculus was my mind and my sense of self. But this felt like an unsatisfying explanation. After all, I couldn’t feel the location of my mind, like I would…

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