Course Description

Syllabus


 
      Introduction

 
    1.  What is Physical Intelligence?

 
    2.  Orientation in Relation to Gravity

 
    3.  Perception

 
    4.  Proprioception

 
    5.  Spatial Perception

 
    6.  Complex Coordination

 
    7.  Learning and Development

 
    8.  E-motion

 
    9.  "Tooling"

 
    10.  Flight  
           

 

In the research that takes place at MIT the body is present as an object of study but is all but unrecognized as an important dimension of our intelligence and experience. Yet the body is the very basis of our experience in the world; it is the very foundation on which cognitive intelligence is built. Though we appear to move beyond such physical learning early in life, our thinking, learning and understanding are constantly referencing this experiential base, aptly reflected in the Mens et Manus motto of the Institute.