Descartes' mechanical daughter -- Measuring the world -- Experiencing the world -- Observation -- Practice -- Improvisation -- Empathy -- Retention -- Why embodied knowledge matters -- Embodied business -- Embodied policymaking and politics -- Embodied creativity and design -- Artificial intelligence and robots.
Summary
"Drawing upon an incredible range of cutting-edge science, real-life examples, and personal experience, Simon Roberts explores the complexity of even the simplest of tasks that humans perform every day and explains how, with a greater awareness of the processes at work, we can tap into our full potential and excel in any area of our lives"-- Provided by publisher.