Melanie Challenger：从 GPS 到 AI，现代技术正在让身体“去技能化”
Deskilling the Body
Melanie Challenger 在 Aeon 撰文指出，从 GPS 到 AI 的现代技术正通过取代具身体验，让人类身体陷入持续“去技能化”。她认为大脑本身是物理器官，会被身体的行动与遭遇不断塑造；一旦把心智视为真正的“人”、身体只当硬件，就容易忽视包括生物大脑神经认知工作在内的身体劳动。机器每接管一项行动，身体就少一次学习机会，讽刺的是，旨在克服身体脆弱性的项目反而在制造更脆弱的身体。
“We have fallen into habits that are steadily deskilling the human body,” writes Melanie Challenger. “This is a strange turn of events for an animal whose success comes mostly from the extraordinary ability to learn through experience.” For Aeon, Challenger explores how modern technologies, from GPS to AI, are eroding our body’s physical skills by replacing the embodied experiences through which we learn.
After all, the brain is itself a physical organ, continually shaped by what the body does and encounters. Once we decide that the mind is the real human and the rest of the body only hardware, it becomes easier to disregard the physical work, including the neurocognitive work of a biological brain, through which we move, find our way, put thoughts into words, and recognise our own needs. A machine may do some of that work faster, but each act it takes over is one that the body no longer performs and that the body, including the brain, no longer learns through. The irony is that a project motivated by the desire to overcome bodily fragility is helping to produce more fragile bodies.
来源：Longreads · longreads.com
原文链接：https://longreads.com/2026/10/15/body-deskilling-embodied-intelligence/