30/11/2025
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We often think of the mind as housed in the brain, with the body as its vehicle—a view shaped by Western philosophy’s emphasis on the mental over the physical.
But Stanford psychologist Barbara Tversky disagrees. In this exclusive IAI interview, Tversky argues thinking is not just something the mind does; it’s something the body is.
The movements of our limbs, the gestures we make, even our orientation in space, don’t just support thought—they are its architecture.
"So the gestures are somehow facilitating not just the words but the thinking. And that's a bit of a mystery to me, why movements of the body seem to be core to thinking," argues Tversky.
Tap the link to read more about why thinking is embodied, spatial, and outside your head: https://iai.tv/articles/your-body-thinks-as-much-as-your-mind-auid-3282