The body is not a machine

Locomotion studies are ready for a new foundation

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The human body is subject to innumerable metaphors: Our brains are computers with immense processing power; our bodies are machines that need to be tuned and honed and oiled and optimized.

But metaphors are just that — metaphors. While they’re useful for interpreting and explaining the world to ourselves, they…