Some core capabilities are bodily health, ability to play, ability to affiliate socially, freedom of movement, and adequate educational level.
A well rehearsed binary between material impairment and social disability, (echoing the sex/gender distinction), has been replaced in some writings with an articulation of bodily (dis)abilities as an intertwined nature/culture of the kind articulated above.
The ability for women like Thecla to choose to be celibate utilizing her faith is a grand feat unto itself, an expression of incredible bodily power.
Both Gardner and Sternberg believed that conventional notions of intelligence were too narrow; Sternberg, however, questioned how far psychologists should go beyond traditional concepts, suggesting that musical and bodily-kinesthetic abilities are talents rather than intelligences because they are fairly specific and are not prerequisites for adaptation in most cultures.
Transhumanism is the position that human beings should be permitted to use technology to modify and enhance human cognition and bodily function, expanding abilities and capacities beyond current biological constraints.
Physical assault and pain inflicted through haptic technologies will no longer be limited by assailants' bodily strength or abilities, and could comprise an excruciating range of never-before-felt synthetic sensations, qualitatively different to those associated with an "IRL" beating.
"Children's movies must be held to a higher standard, and must teach children bodily autonomy, the ability to say 'no' and safety, not confusing messages endorsing unwanted genital touching".
It begins with mild, slowly progressing loss of memory and then continued with debilitating symptoms such as complete loss of cognitive abilities and bodily functions, ultimately leading to death.
