... different kind of thing? Recall the attractions of the mind-stuff theory, for Cartesians. First, the theorywas supposed to explain how the essence of the self, the mindor soul, could survive the destruction ... understanding neu-roethics. The thesis is known as the extended mind hypothesis. The extended mind hypothesis, stated simply, is this: the mindis not wholly contained within the skull, or even within ... widely distributed across the brain;hence, the kind of thinking the brain performs is often described asa kind of parallel distributed processing.Catching a ball, for instance, requires that...