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LIT-1060: Cognition in the Wild

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StatusUnavailable — filed 2026-10-15, not read. Registered from the exchange of 2026-10-14 on prompting, epistemic memory and retrieval (the workbench entry of 2026-10-15). No NOTE is filed, and it stays Unavailable until it is read, not on merit. Looked for a lawful full text on 2026-10-15 and found none. Unpaywall and OpenAlex report it open access (green) on the strength of a single repository record at the University of Ljubljana (repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=44611, no PDF URL given); that record returns HTTP 410 with "Gradivo ne obstaja" (the item does not exist), and the Internet Archive has no capture of it, so the OA flag is stale. OpenAlex marks the MIT Press location itself as not open access, Crossref carries no licence for the DOI, and Semantic Scholar reports it closed. MIT Press Direct (direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/4604/Cognition-in-the-Wild, reached through the DOI) and the MIT Press catalogue page both returned 403 behind a Cloudflare challenge, the Internet Archive holds no capture of either, and a web search found only paid editions and library records and no sign that MIT Press has made the title open access. Hutchins's own UCSD site (pages.ucsd.edu/~ehutchins/citw.html) posts the book's Introduction in full (about 3,000 words: how the study began, the critique of an ideational, inside-the-head view of culture and cognition, and a chapter-by-chapter outline), but nothing else from the book. hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/ is a JavaScript shell with no documents. No shadow library, Internet Archive lending copy or third-party upload was used. The Introduction states the move the record cites it for. It does not argue for it. It says Hutchins will "move the boundaries of the cognitive unit of analysis out beyond the skin of the individual person and treat the navigation team as a cognitive and computational system", that "local functional systems composed of a person in interaction with a tool have cognitive properties that are radically different from the cognitive properties of the person alone" (chapter 3), and that "Depending on their organization, groups must have cognitive properties that are not predictable from a knowledge of the properties of the individuals in the group" (chapter 4 takes the team as a whole). Hutchins's "How a cockpit remembers its speeds" (Cognitive Science 19(3), 1995, pp. 265–288, DOI 10.1207/s15516709cog1903_1) has lawful copies: the author posts the typeset article (pages.ucsd.edu/~ehutchins/documents/CockpitSpeeds.pdf, 24 pp., fetched 2026-10-15), and Unpaywall, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar list Wiley's free publisher PDF (bronze; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1207/s15516709cog1903_1, which returned 403 to this environment). It is not registered, and it is the reading available now for QUESTION-101.
Tagscognition, embodied-cognition, social-ontology

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Hutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. MIT Press. DOI 10.7551/mitpress/1881.001.0001

Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.

Why this is here

A17 §5 called the EMT case (CASE-085) distributed cognition: the team knew the drug was stocked, the box encoded where, and no one member had everything needed in time. This is the founding study of that tradition, and the first reading for QUESTION-101. The record cites Hutchins elsewhere only through other works (LIT-438, LIT-702).

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