{"id":246538,"date":"2026-11-04T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/sheila-l-macrine-and-jennifer-m-b-fugate"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:08:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:08:23","slug":"sheila-l-macrine-and-jennifer-m-b-fugate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/sheila-l-macrine-and-jennifer-m-b-fugate","title":{"rendered":"Sheila L. Macrine and Jennifer M.B. Fugate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/12343\/9780262053495\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems<\/a><\/em> (MIT Press, 2026) explores a radical transformation taking place in intelligence research. Rather than focusing exclusively on brains and computer code, the book examines the important role that embodiment plays in producing intelligent, goal-directed behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The book brings together experts from a range of disciplines to create conversations across fields that are often studied separately. Through these diverse perspectives, the contributors investigate how intelligence may develop and operate across different scales, physical forms and systems.<\/p>\n<p>The book moves beyond the traditional divide between biological and artificial intelligence. It considers how intelligent behavior can emerge in humans, other living organisms, technological systems and unexpected forms that may not fit conventional definitions of intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embodied Intelligence: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Natural, Artificial, and Hybrid Systems (MIT Press, 2026) explores a radical transformation taking place in intelligence research. Rather than focusing exclusively on brains and computer code, the book examines the important role that embodiment plays in producing intelligent, goal-directed behavior. The book brings together experts from a range of disciplines [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}