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How does Embodiment Science shift how we think about Intelligence? (with Guy Claxton & Emily Poel)

September 1, 2026 · 19 min

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This is the first the 4 short episodes exploring the fuller implications of embodiment science to our core concepts and deep grammars of schooling and education.

As you will have heard on a previous episode I did with Prof. Guy Claxton and Emily Poel, their book 'Bodies of Learning: How Embodiment Science Transforms Education' is a really significant statement of some of the work we need to do to excavate these unhelpful myths that are holding us back in the decisions and designs that we make for new educational approaches.

In these four episodes, we're going to take a deeper look at the core concepts of intelligence, learning, memory & knowledge, and thinking & reasoning. And in this first episode, I ask guy and Emily, what does embodiment science have to say about the way that we think about intelligence.

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