This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking
Short of recommending her book The Extended Mind, I point you to this podcast with Annie Murphy Paul to introduce you to this premise: we learn and work better if we intentionally tap into "extra-neural" resources, including our bodies, our physical environments, and the people around us.
I wanted to challenge the metaphor of the computer and point out that, no, actually the brain evolved in particular settings, mostly outside. It evolved to do things like sense and move the body to find its way through three dimensional landscapes, to engage in encounters in small groups of people. These are the things that the brain does effortlessly, naturally. The brain is not a computer. It never was, and its failures are particular to its own nature, and it has to be understood on its own terms.