| We used to think that intelligence occurred completely in the head but we now realize that intelligence is distributed. If we take away your books and your computers and your files and your notebooks, you will become a dummy. In fact you are close to a blank slate, because so much of human intelligence consists in the artifacts as well as the other people with whom we deal. | |||
| p. 85 | |||
| Howard E. Gardner |
"Cognition: A Western Perspective" MindScience: An East-West Dialog Wisdom Books, 1994 |
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