The body of knowledge: On the role of the living body in grounding embodied cognition
Biosyst. October 1, 2016 T. Ziemke 62 citations
Embodied cognition remains a contested concept in cognitive science and AI. Some researchers treat the body as a sensorimotor interface that grounds computational processes in environmental interaction, while biologically-oriented views stress the living body's homeostatic and allostatic self-regulation as foundational for both sensorimotor interaction and cognition. Adopting the latter perspective—a multi-tiered affectively embodied view—the author argues that modeling organisms as layered networks of bodily self-regulation mechanisms can advance scientific understanding of embodied cognition.