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Mind Games: Game Engines as an Architecture for Intuitive Physics

We explore the hypothesis that many intuitive physical inferences are based on a mental physics engine that is analogous in many ways to the machine physics engines used in building interactive video games. We describe the key features of game physics engines and their parallels in human mental representation, focusing especially on the intuitive physics […]

Published on July 12, 2017