Embodied cognition is an important trend in cognitive science that consists of three general themes:
- Conceptualization: the concepts an organism can acquire are determined, limited, or constrained by the properties of the organism’s body.
- Replacement: the dynamics of an organism’s bodily interaction with the environment replaces the need for representational processing. Thus, cognition can be explained without the appeal to computational processes or representational states.
- Constitution: constituents of cognition extend beyond the brain, so the body or world does not play a mere causal role in cognitive processes.
Is 2 really an accurate summary of the idea? I don't know of any embodied-cognition types who negate computational processes utterly (very possibly a limit on my own reading); AFAIK it's considered "insufficient", not "unnecessary." Poking around Wikipedia doesn't immediately suggest that either. What are you summarizing here that leads you to think this is an accurate statement of what embodied cognition entails?