Physical embodiment

• In the dynamical approach to cognition the body is generally conceptualized as the physical interface between the NS and the environment.

• Since cognition is the result of closed sensorimotor loops with the environment (not a set of disembodied abstract computations) then body constraints become crucial to the understanding of behaviour.

• The body becomes like a primary environment for the NS from which the NS cannot decouple (unlike selective engagements with features of the environment).