Tag: Intuitive Physics

2 articles

Cognition & AI

Causality Is Hardware, Not Software

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.

Theo Kask·April 27, 2026

Embodied Cognition & AI

Poke It and See: The Causal Reasoning Superpower That Makes Children Better Scientists Than AI

Children are intuitive causal scientists — they poke, tilt, and intervene to figure out why things happen. AI systems, despite their power, still can't quite do this. Here's why the gap matters.

Raf Delgado·February 28, 2026