What do cognitive scientists mean when saying people have ‘embodied brains’?

So, half of what we know comes from our senses, ‘our bodily interactions in the world.’ And this half provides mostly unconscious knowing. When this unconscious knowing breaks into consciousness, it does so through metaphor, and unless the metaphor is…Read More

Half of what we know comes from our senses, ‘our bodily interactions in the world’ ?

Cognitive science tells us. Doesn’t it follow that PLACE is important in our experience of life? Where the body is, what place, is half of what contributes to knowing. A child surrounded by chaos, by neglect, by hunger is scarred;…Read More