How the Body Shapes the Way We Think Josh C. Bongard, Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer, Shun Iwasawa
Publisher: The MIT Press

How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. And outside of that body is an external history accumulated from many bodies interacting. How the Body Shapes the Way We Think. Bongard, Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer, Shun Iwasawa. This was based on both detailed Hutchinson concludes, “What was great about this project for us is that we were able to reconstruct the evolution of whole body dimensions in extinct animals in a quantitative way for the first time, and yet that way was honest about how much we don't know about those dimensions. No really–they just don't care the way we think they do. Kitano reviews a new book in Nature (PDE of review here): How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence. Psychologist Lera Boroditsky says she's "interested in how the languages we speak shape the way we think" [1]. 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. 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. Basically, the posits that our languages don't necessarily control and limit the way we think (not having a future tense doesn't mean we can't think or talk about the future, and not having a word for something doesn't mean you can't understand it), but that it does affect it, and in some cases, direct We don't need a map or a compass to work it out, we just feel it, because the egocentric coordinates are based directly on our own bodies and our immediate visual fields. From this, we expanded the 'shrink-wrap' to match how we much flesh we think existed around the different parts of the skeleton. How.the.Body.Shapes.the.Way.We.Think.pdf. (You know what men's ideal body shape is for a woman?