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A review by brogan7
The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Matthew Blakeslee, Sandra Blakeslee
informative
slow-paced
3.5
This book was interesting but also hard to keep attention on...
I was intrigued by the notion of embodied knowledge (that all knowledge is embodied and that therefore AI cannot be successful because it is not embodied), but they didn't develop this idea further or give specific examples.
As someone who is "geographically challenged," I was interested in the research on place cells and grid cells (and that it makes sense that I have problems playing sports).
Again, I felt the lack of more personal stories from the writers, more... integrated interpretations of the implications of this research. Instead a lot of it was flat.
However, the information itself is interesting and in some cases potentially life changing. I wish they'd found a way to make it sparkle a bit more.
I was intrigued by the notion of embodied knowledge (that all knowledge is embodied and that therefore AI cannot be successful because it is not embodied), but they didn't develop this idea further or give specific examples.
As someone who is "geographically challenged," I was interested in the research on place cells and grid cells (and that it makes sense that I have problems playing sports).
Again, I felt the lack of more personal stories from the writers, more... integrated interpretations of the implications of this research. Instead a lot of it was flat.
However, the information itself is interesting and in some cases potentially life changing. I wish they'd found a way to make it sparkle a bit more.