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Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life
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Readers
12/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Scott Grafton
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
January 7, 2020
Ever wonder why you donât 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 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.
What The Reviewers Say
Mr. Grafton is an excellent guide to the contemporary science of bodily skills.
Grafton writes with clarity and warmth, elucidating key points with descriptions of experiments and the work of many other scientists in a variety of fields.
At times a demanding scientific read, Grafton’s study is ultimately a thought-provoking examination of neuroscience delightfully informed by a transcendentalist plea for greater harmony with nature..
A climber and distance hiker, Grafton takes many of his examples from his own experiences outdoors under conditions that sometimes invite taking things for granted but that instead require constant vigilance, the mind connecting sensory information to appropriate responses—appropriate because, so often, doing the wrong thing can lead to disaster.
