A New View of Intelligence

Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
Foreword by Rodney Brooks, MIT Press 2007.

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How the Body Shapes the Way We Think

A New View of Intelligence

Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
Foreword by Rodney Brooks, MIT Press 2007.

Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodiment--in our morphology and the material properties of our bodies.

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Reviews:
Nature, 24 May 2007, No.447, pp.381-382
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7 March 2007, No.55, p.69
Technology Review, January 2007, No.1, p.92
Nature Neuroscience, vol. 11 no. 1
Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 15:3 (2007), pp. 610--614

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