Biological embodiment

• The body of the NS is not “just” a physical interface, the (organismic) body, is first of all a biological autonomous (self-sustaining) body.

  • the condition of possibility of the NS as a dynamical system.

• The brain is not just coupled with the environment through the body but also with the body's internal homeostatic dynamics.

• Antonio Damasio: the NS interacts with the environment in terms of the effect of this sensorimotor interactions on the (metabolic) body dynamics.

  • somatic markers
  • internal body landscape