This is confirmed by the testimony of Iamblichus according to which Numenius, Cronius,[1] and Harpocration consider all embodiments to be invariably bad (fr. 48.10 14) and is compatible with Numenius' view that matter is the source of all that is bad (see above, Metaphysics; cf. Dillon 1977, 375-376, Zambon 2002, 213-221).
For cognitive systems, embodiment appears to be of crucial importance.
The sensible world, for example, is not evil, nor is embodiment itself to be regarded as straightforwardly bad.
Even for the most distinctively mental of activities, the full particulars of embodiment need to be respected.
For human finitude and limit, our embodiment, ought not to be expressed as though it were some sort of problem, as though it were a lack or flaw.
Nobody involved with "God of Carnage" considers Mr. Gandolfini's previous embodiment of Tony Soprano to be anything more than a mechanism for attracting audience members who will then, they hope, eject it from their minds once in the theater.
Spring Awakening is now playing aTherooks Atwonson Theater in New York.
But as the Dharma signifies the interdependent origination, hence, emptiness (kû) of all beings, its embodiment may be said to be an "empty body".
In her view, "the same social forces that constitute a body as culturally legible or illegible also shape the very feelings of embodiment that would seem to be most personal, most individual, and most immune to regulatory injunction" (77).
Even Mr. Bagneris, the embodiment of smoooooth, seems to be imitating himself.
