Recurrent Neural Physics Engine

The humans brain possesses intuitive understandings of physics [1] learned during infanthood [2], allowing them to reason about the world using mental simulations [3]. For example, when given tasks to predict the final position of an object given its initial state, humans simulate possible trajectories that might occur given the environment and starting configurations [4, 5]. Understanding the neural architectures and computations that may lead to accurate physical simulations that reflect the processing of the human brain.