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 Josh C. Bongard, Rodney Brooks, Rolf Pfeifer, Shun Iwasawa ebook
ISBN: 0262162393, 9780262162395
Page: 409
Publisher: The MIT Press
Format: pdf

As a sufferer of BWS, subset of PTSD and its accompanying symptoms of depression and anxiety; I definitely think language shapes the way we think. «How the body shapes the way we think»: Übersetzungen und Peinlichkeiten. Language is a uniquely human gift, central to our experience of being human. How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? 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. Her work has provided new insights on the controversial question of whether the languages we speak shape the way we think (see Sapir-Whorf hypothesis). Rolf Pfeifer has been one of the pioneers of a new approach in artificial intelligence ("new AI"), which stresses the importance of embodiment - how the body shapes the way we think. Not all problems with the human body are illnesses. The 'considered harmful' police are probably the equivalent of political correctness -- it doesn't so much shape the way you think or make you better, more it reminds you that there is a large invisible group of people that apparently feel if your language has words for left and right when you're talking about something positioned relative to your body, but if you're just trying to navigate somewhere or looking for something, your language doesn't affect your thinking. Manchmal komme ich mir vor wie ein Wanderprediger: Ich predige «Embodiment», wie das moderne Schlagwort heisst. 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.