
Cognition & AI
The Body Finishes the Lesson
Why children often understand instructions through action, feedback, and revision—and what embodied robots reveal about helping learning stick.
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Why children often understand instructions through action, feedback, and revision—and what embodied robots reveal about helping learning stick.

A four-month-old staring at a teleporting ball isn't just cute — it's running a physics engine no language model was ever given. Here's why human causal cognition is a vertical stack, and AI only has the top floor.

Stories aren't just how humans communicate — they're how we think. Language models can predict your brain's response to a sentence. They still can't tell a story. Here's why the gap is wider than it looks.