Bodies of Intelligence Group

Megan Young recently presented her research at The Bloomington Symposium: Intelligence gathering hosted by the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University as a co-organizer of the “Bodies of Intelligence” working group described by IU News. In her talk, Young pressed fellow researchers to consider how human intelligence is not merely an abstract cognitive property but is continuously gathered through the embodied interface of our bodies—how we move, sense, and act in the world—and that this embodied intelligence shapes what we understand of the world. From that perspective, if machines are ever to truly apprehend human vernacular and nuance, that embodied intelligence must be taught to them as well. [image credit: Liv Arnold’s Body of Intelligence (2024) animation]

11/2024 Bloomington, IN