Darwin: The Mind’s Scaffolding David
Darwin: The Mind's Scaffolding David Weinberger: External scaffolding includes the simple ways we organize the world (e.g., alphabetizing our CDs), the chalkboard the physics professor uses, libraries, the Web, language itself and social institutions. Without these, we are naught but damn dirty apes. The characteristics of our mind that we identify as most peculiarly human depend on our ability to alter our world to help us think. Our human mind is inextricably entwined with the world and its manipulation.Permalink | Wednesday, August 29, 2001
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