Embodied approaches in cognitive science hold that the body is crucial for cognition. What this claim amounts to, however, still remains unclear. This paper contributes to its clarification by confronting three ways of understanding embodiment—the sensorimotor approach, extended cognition and enactivism—with Lockedin syndrome (LIS). LIS is a case of severe global paralysis in which patients are...

“Why workers’ rights are not women’s rights” is an argument whose purpose is to make clear why workers’ rights rest on a masculine embodiment of the labor subject and it is this masculine embodiment which is at the center of employment contracts and employment relations systems. By excavating the gender subjects implicit to and explicit in regulations of labor, the paper reveals the opposition ...

In order to function robustly in the world, autonomous agents need to assimilate concepts for physical entities and relations, grounded in perception and action. They also need to assimilate concepts for perceptual properties like color, shape, and weight, and perhaps eventually even for nonphysical objects like unicorns. The process of acquiring concepts that carry meaning in terms of the agen...

Abstract An investigation into the embodiment of consumer knowledge is presented, drawing on ethnomethodology and allied field conversation analysis. Analyzing video recordings 189 service encounters at ticket desk an art gallery, study explores knowledge, how witnessable from quotidian details customers’ embodied conduct, they talk, move their bodies, gesture, handle objects, cast gaze. Consum...

“An essential voice in creatively based thinking is the language of the body...” (Johnston, 1986, p. 21). Depending on your background, claims such as this may seem obvious or surprising, but are they actually true and can they be validated? If true, can we use this insight to design computational tools that better support creativity? These questions drove an extended investigation of how incre...