Theme 3 is trivial for the body in the following sense: every cognitive concept is normally ascribed to whole organisms and ascribing cognitive concepts only to brains (or minds) is a modern conceptual extension. The “extended cognition” thesis (that parts of the world are also constitutive of cognition) is a little more controversial (although it’s surely less controversial that parts of the world can be part of our explanations of cognition). In some ways “embodied cognition” is thus little more than a rejection of some of the presuppositions of traditional cognitive science.
Theme 3 is trivial for the body in the following sense: every cognitive concept is normally ascribed to whole organisms and ascribing cognitive concepts only to brains (or minds) is a modern conceptual extension. The “extended cognition” thesis (that parts of the world are also constitutive of cognition) is a little more controversial (although it’s surely less controversial that parts of the world can be part of our explanations of cognition). In some ways “embodied cognition” is thus little more than a rejection of some of the presuppositions of traditional cognitive science.