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From: NPR

Storing Information In Other People’s Heads

NPR:

To function effectively in the world, you need to acquire a whole lot of information. You need to know exactly which medicine is appropriate for each ailment. You need to know how to fix your car and your router and your irrigation system. You need to know the date of every major holiday and how it is observed.

Right? Of course not. That would be crazy.

We don’t keep all the information we could possibly need in our own heads, just as we don’t make all our own clothes and manufacture our own doorknobs. We rely on a division of labor. And, according to many cognitive scientists, we also rely on “a division of cognitive labor.” Beyond consulting Google and smartphones and books, we store some of the information we care about in other people’s heads.

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