Madeleine reasons without a body

Madeleine, a patient discussed by Oliver Sacks, used a wheelchair, was blind, and was unable to read Braille. In effect, she lacked a body. Yet she still managed to acquire commonsense knowledge from books that were read to her.

Doug Lenat (1992), as articulated by Hubert Dreyfus (1992).

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