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Physical intelligence : the science of how the body and the mind guide each other through life / Scott Grafton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]Edition: First editionDescription: xvi, 263 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781524747329
  • 1524747327
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The space we create -- Surfaces -- Shaping the self -- The hidden hand -- Pulling strings -- Perspectives -- Learning to solve problems -- Purpose -- Costs -- Of one mind.
Summary: An examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don't engage) in all manner of physical action.Summary: How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb? Grafton accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and shows how physical intelligence is inherent in all of us-- and always in problem-solving mode. He demonstrates the relevance of physical intelligence with examples that each of us might face-- whether the situation is mundane, exceptional, extreme, or compromised. -- adapted from jacket
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 153 G737 Available 33111009418449
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 153 G737 Available 33111009582558
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Elegantly written and deeply grounded in personal experience--works by Oliver Sacks come to mind-- Physical Intelligence gives us a clear, illuminating examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don't engage) in all manner of physical action.

Ever wonder why you don't walk into walls or off cliffs? How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb? Through the prisms of behavioral neurology and cognitive neuroscience, Scott Grafton brilliantly accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and he shows how physical intelligence is inherent in all of us--and always in problem-solving mode. Drawing on insights gleaned from discoveries by engineers who have learned to emulate the sophisticated solutions Mother Nature has created for managing complex behavior, Grafton also demonstrates the relevance of physical intelligence with examples that each of us might face--whether the situation is mundane, exceptional, extreme, or compromised.

An examination of the intricate, mutually responsive relationship between the mind and the body as they engage (or don't engage) in all manner of physical action.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The space we create -- Surfaces -- Shaping the self -- The hidden hand -- Pulling strings -- Perspectives -- Learning to solve problems -- Purpose -- Costs -- Of one mind.

How you decide if you can drive through a snowstorm? How high you are willing to climb up a ladder to change a lightbulb? Grafton accounts for the design and workings of the action-oriented brain in synchronicity with the body in the natural world, and shows how physical intelligence is inherent in all of us-- and always in problem-solving mode. He demonstrates the relevance of physical intelligence with examples that each of us might face-- whether the situation is mundane, exceptional, extreme, or compromised. -- adapted from jacket

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