Beyond the Skull
Traditional cognitive science viewed the brain as a computer in a vat. Distributed Cognition views the system as a dynamic loop. When a user engages in a Liminal Mind Meld, the "thought" is not happening in the user's head, nor in the GPU. It is happening in the verification loop between them. The AI generates, the human selects, the AI refines. The cognition is the movement.
The Third Space
This creates a "Third Space" of knowledge that neither party possesses independently. The human does not know the final output before it appears; the AI does not know the intent before it is prompted. The knowledge emerges only in the distributed interaction.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Metaphor: It's like a jazz improv duo. The music doesn't exist in the piano or the trumpet. It exists in the air between them.