Apr 7, 2013 / 5:00 am Movement is fundamental to human life. In
fact, movement is life. Contemporary physics tells us that the
universe and everything in it is in constant motion. A living
body is a moving body. The poet and philosopher Alan Watts
eloquently states a similar view, "A living body is not a fixed
thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool." Or it
should be anyway. A TED talk from neuroscientist, Daniel
Wolpert, a self-professed movement chauvinist, typifies this
idea with his theory that says “the only reason we have a brain
is to create movement.” He uses the computer chip then robotics
to forward his argument. He uses the game of chess as an
example. Both can play chess equally well, but both cannot move
the pieces equally well. This then moves his investigation to
robotics – a computer placed within a manipulative form -
manipulation robotics. We have seen robotics move; they are not
very smooth, or fast, or move at all when an external disruption
impacts them. Nothing can compare