# Embodied Cognition **Domain:** Cognitive Science / Body / Environment **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Foundational ## Definition **Embodied cognition** holds that cognition depends materially on bodily capacities, action and environmental coupling rather than occurring as abstract symbol manipulation alone. ## Evolutionary Nexus Animal biomechanics, primatology and human niche construction in [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] show intelligence developing through bodies inside environments. ## Continuity Context Moving memory or computation does not automatically preserve the sensorimotor organization through which a person became themselves. Receiving substrates must account for bodily feedback, affect and learned affordances. ## See Also [[wiki/Animal Biomechanics|Animal Biomechanics]], [[wiki/Remote Embodiment|Remote Embodiment]], [[wiki/Receiving Substrate|Receiving Substrate]], [[wiki/Human Factors|Human Factors]]