Embodied Cognition

Embodied approaches study cognition through bodily processes, action, and interaction with an environment. Minding the moving self: the centrality of body movement in the neurodynamics of the self and psychotherapeutic implications discusses movement and human self-modeling.^[1]

Gallagher and Varga’s review emphasizes plural explanations of social cognition and cautions against one account explaining all autistic experience; only its institutional abstract was checked here.^[2] Gallese, Rochat, and Berchio discuss the mirror mechanism as a proposed component of social cognition, with controversies explicitly considered.^[3]

These human research contexts do not establish that an AI requires a biological body, that a robot experiences consciousness, or that embodiment solves AI Alignment. Comparisons must distinguish biological evidence from computational analogies.