The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

By Annie Murphy Paul

 
PART I Thinking with Our Bodies 1 Thinking with Sensations
Interoceptive Awareness leads to better success in financial traders

Interoception is, simply stated, an awareness of the inner state of the body. Just as we have sensors that take in information from the outside world (retinas, cochleas, taste buds, olfactory bulbs), we have sensors inside our bodies that send our brains a constant flow of data from within. These sensations are generated in places all over the body—in our internal organs, in our muscles, even in our bones—and then travel via multiple pathways to a structure in the bra...