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The Disembodied Mind Assumption
Thinking is an abstract process that does not require the presence of a body.
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Notes:
The notion of emodiment is used by many situated action theorists. See, for example, "COG" Box 109.
On the notion that the mind is disembodied, see the "Is the brain a computer?" arguments on Map 1 and the "Can functional states generate consciousness?" arguments on Map 6.
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