How the Body Shapes the Way We Think by Josh C. Bongard, Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer, Shun Iwasawa

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think



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How the Body Shapes the Way We Think Josh C. Bongard, Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer, Shun Iwasawa ebook
Page: 409
ISBN: 0262162393, 9780262162395
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: pdf


The jury seems to be out on this debate. What we have learned is that people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world. By Rolf Pfeifer & Josh Bongard, Bradford Books: 2006. His legacy is not data collection or micro results, but rather some very big concepts that continue to shape the way we think about not just development but public policy more generally. The Kuuk Thaayorre did not arrange the cards more often from left to right than from right to left, nor more toward or away from the body. "In this thoroughly engaging and unusually wide-ranging book, Pfeifer and Bongard make the case for the central role of embodiment in understanding natural intelligence and building artificial intelligence. Kitano reviews a new book in Nature (PDE of review here): How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence. (You know what men's ideal body shape is for a woman? Surely, language must shape the way we see the world in some ways, right? Doesn't that challenge the view that language does not shape thought? No really–they just don't care the way we think they do. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. Finally, the embodied approach accounts for the interactions of intelligent agents with their environment and acknowledges that intelligence requires a body.

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