Gudrun: I think this is not about intelligence, but it is about our mind being inter-dependent (also via evolution) with senses and body.
Sorry, I've lost a subsequent post in which you went on to say that the very terms "mind" and "body" in this context were splitting up something that can't be split up. Would you (or anyone else) like to discurse - riff - on that? However casually...
The background for me is this: there is a great, untrumpeted revolution going on, which is called Embodied Cognitive Science. See Wiki. That is all founded on the idea of the "embodied mind". Cognitive science is based on the idea that thought is a program - which can in principle be instantiated on any computational machine - and is a science founded on AI/ computers. Embodied cog sci is Cog Sci Stage 2 and is based on the idea that thought is a brain-and-body affair - and cannot take place without both - and is a science founded on robotics.
But the whole terminology of this new science - "embodied mind" - is still lopsided, still unduly deferential - and needs to be replaced. So I'm interested in any thoughts related to this, however rough.
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