What does it actually mean to have a body?
In this episode of the No Street Lights Podcast, Tim sitsdown with veteran, philosopher, and friend, Jeremy Tanner, to explore theembodiment problem, a fundamental question at the intersection of philosophy,cognition, and artificial intelligence.
Rather than asking whether machines can think, thisconversation starts somewhere simple: Is that a body? And if something doesn’thave a body, what does that mean for learning, understanding, experience, ormind?
Through a slow, exploratory discussion, this episodeexamines embodiment as more than physical form, touching on sensation,limitation, learning, prediction, tools, extended cognition, and where humanexperience fundamentally differs from artificial systems.
If you’re interested in questions of consciousness,learning, cognition, and what it means to exist in a body rather than simplyprocess information, this episode offers space to think.
In This Episode, We Explore:
• What we mean when we say something has a “body”
• Why embodiment matters for learning and meaning
• The difference between processing information andexperiencing the world
• Where artificial systems succeed, and where theyfundamentally differ from humans
• Extended cognition, tools, and the limits of intelligencewithout sensation
• Why some questions aren’t meant to be answered quickly
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