Maggie Appleton 写设计、人类学和智能体界面时，习惯先画清楚隐喻，再谈工具。把「How to Become a Neo-Cartesian Cyborg」整理成可阅读的中文笔记：问题在哪、界面默认会把人带去哪、落地时该改什么。原站导航、评论回响和广告已去掉。

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In September of 2019 I went through the Building a Second Brain course And took illustrated notes that you can take a look at here – an enormously popular online guide to improving your “ Personal Knowledge Management ” system. Or PKM as it’s commonly known, is a novel name for an old concept. The art of filtering, curating, and cultivating what you read and encounter. And then being able to turn it into “useful output” of some variety. The course did wond

What does it mean to build a “second brain,” and why do we think that’s a Good and Valuable thing to do?

Slides and Notes

What strange historical and cultural paths led us to this cerebral cyborgian dream?

Many of these questions and themes align with concepts I explored in Tracking Humanity – my anthropology thesis on the Quantified Self movement.

Books Mentioned in the Talk

Luckily I have a small community of fellow BASB enthusiasts here in London to explore these questions with. At our March 2020 meetup I put together a lightning talk exploring how Second Braining relates to our notions of cyborgs, our embodied experiences, and the historical legacies that landed us here.

Books Mentioned in the Talk Natural-Born Cyborgs Andy Clark Philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark proposes that what makes humans so different from other species is our capacity to fully incorporate tools and supporting cultural practices into our existence.

Natural-Born Cyborgs

Through a series of neuroscience case studies, Antonio Damasio challenges traditional ideas about the connection between emotions and rationality. Damasio shows that emotions are not a luxury, but an essential part of rational thinking and normal social behaviour.

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Lakoff and Johnson argue that metaphor is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to map our physical and social experiences onto countless other subjects.

Descartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain

Lakoff and Johnson philosophically examine our historical understanding of minds, bodies, and reasoning through a radically new and detailed understandings of modern cognitive science. They re-examine the basic concepts of the mind, time, causation, morality, and the self.

Metaphors We Live By

先写出默认交互会鼓励什么行为，再决定要不要用聊天框当万能入口。没有对照的界面改动，很容易只是换皮。

落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 先写清这个工具在强化思考还是在替人思考。
2. 默认交互不要只会谄媚：该追问、该给反例、该要求证据。
3. 智能体界面要露出推理步骤，而不是只给一个光滑答案。
4. 知识发布用可生长的笔记，而不是一次性营销长文。
5. 改产品前先画隐喻：用户以为自己在做什么，系统实际在做什么。

和智能体产品怎么接

龙虾PRO做 OpenClaw 落地时，最该从这类笔记里拿走的是「别把聊天框当唯一界面」。数字员工要能追问、能验证、能把过程摊开，而不是只负责说好话。

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