# Body-Dock
**Domain:** Embodiment / Design / Interfaces
**Doc Type:** Corpus-Specific Concept
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Receiving Substrate]], [[Remote Embodiment]], [[Civilian Cockpit]], [[Design for Dignity]]
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## Definition
A **body-dock** is an engineered form that receives, supports or channels a body as part of a larger technical system.
## Corpus Context
The [[Eames Lounge Chair]] is the article's historical example; the replica in [[Black Mirror S6E3 — Beyond the Sea]] is the fictional extension. The concept asks whether support preserves agency or converts embodiment into an endpoint controlled elsewhere.
## Key Insight
**This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.**
## See Also
[[Receiving Substrate]], [[Remote Embodiment]], [[Civilian Cockpit]], [[Design for Dignity]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]