{"id":209,"date":"2016-03-02T11:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:10:38","slug":"apple-and-the-fbi-think-iphones-are-safes-a-philosopher-explains-what-they-really-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/02\/apple-and-the-fbi-think-iphones-are-safes-a-philosopher-explains-what-they-really-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and the FBI think iPhones are safes. A philosopher explains what they really are."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text parbase text-5 section\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2016\/02\/apple_and_the_fbi_think_iphones_are_safes_a_philosopher_explains_what_they.single.html#\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/abloglikethis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cq5dam.web_.1280.1280.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our electronic devices\u2014or at least many of the processes that occur within them\u2014are <em>literally<\/em> parts of our minds. And our consideration of Apple\u2019s and the FBI\u2019s arguments ought to flow from that fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text text-6 parbase section\">\n<blockquote><p>This may sound ridiculous. But in <a href=\"http:\/\/consc.net\/papers\/extended.html\">an important co-authored essay<\/a> and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0199773688\/?tag=slatmaga-20\">in a book<\/a>, the philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk\/people\/view.php?name=andy-clark-frse\">Andy Clark<\/a> argued for something called the extended mind hypothesis. The basic idea was that we have no reason to treat the brain alone as the only place where mental processes can occur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2016\/02\/apple_and_the_fbi_think_iphones_are_safes_a_philosopher_explains_what_they.html\">Apple and the FBI think iPhones are safes. A philosopher explains what they really are.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our electronic devices\u2014or at least many of the processes that occur within them\u2014are literally parts of our minds. And our consideration of Apple\u2019s and the FBI\u2019s arguments ought to flow from that fact. This may sound ridiculous. But in an important co-authored essay and then in a book, the philosopher Andy Clark argued for something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-technology","category-transhumanism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplacelikethis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}