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That is not what I meant -- as the excerpt you quoted was intended to communicate.
Musical composition is one of the archetypal instances of a physical-cognition-loaded activity (in the sense that I mean), and yet there your physical tools are a pencil/pen and paper (or, sometimes, indeed, a mouse).
So what do you mean, then? I don't understand what "physical cognition" in this context points to. What is the word "physical" doing in there?
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