AI & Computer Science · AI Books
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence (Pfeifer & Bongard)
LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard argue that intelligence depends on interactions among the body, the brain and the environment.
How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence uses embodied systems to explore that claim.
Robot designs show how physical form and coordination can contribute to behavior.
The discussion connects these ideas with development and the emergence of cognition.
The book offers a way to question accounts of intelligence that focus primarily on computation inside the brain.
Read about the original source: How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence
Part of Marginalia: books, papers, and ideas for learning and debate.