{"id":291691,"date":"2010-02-07T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21746"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:33:35","slug":"the-science-fiction-of-embodied-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/291691","title":{"rendered":"The Science (Fiction) Of Embodied Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Pavlus writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5462883\/the-science-fiction-of-embodied-cognition\">io9.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities\/minds\/&#8221;souls&#8221; into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like <em>Avatar<\/em> and <em>Caprica<\/em>. But how would it work in the real world?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/AvatarSullyInNewBody.jpg\" alt=\"Avatar: Jake Sully In New Body\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21747\" width=\"600\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the science of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/02\/science\/02angier.html?ref=science\">&#8220;embodied cognition&#8221;<\/a> is all about. The basic idea in this new(ish) research area (which overlaps with cognitive psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics, and others) is this: Your mind is defined by your physical form. Not just in terms of &#8220;the mind is what the brain does&#8221;-we all are pretty down with that already. This takes it further to encompass the whole enchilada: your mind-your &#8220;I&#8221;-is a function of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cephalization\">cephalized<\/a>, bipedal, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plantigrade\">plantigrade<\/a>, bilaterally symmetrical body between 1.5 and 2 meters tall with two arms terminating in five-fingered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Pavlus writes on io9.com: Science fiction has long played with the idea of projecting unified personalities\/minds\/&#8221;souls&#8221; into different bodies. The premise is baked into the plots of stories like Avatar and Caprica. But how would it work in the real world? That&#8217;s what the science of &#8220;embodied cognition&#8221; is all about. The basic idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}