Exploring the Role of the Body in Structuring Core Knowledge

The body is used as a tool to structure core knowledge in the mind, enabling the creation of a computationally efficient learning process. By utilizing the body as a training wheel system, the conditions for inference are identified, leading to an evolutionary prior that guides learning. The specific functionalities of the body, such as the range of motion of joints, help in manipulating and observing objects, forming evolutionary priors that aid in learning new information efficiently. This process of utilizing the body as a tool for learning can result in core knowledge that is both an evolutionary prior and a reliably learnable posterior, depending on the perspective.