In sweet irony, I have become a secular Mindfulness teacher, no longer ignoring the peaceful state of mind embodied by the statue in my pre-breakdown dream.
The whole question, to his mind, embodied everything that was wrong with Washington.
Other philosophers dispute such identification on the grounds that minds are embodied in biological systems and extended into the world.
These ideas have had considerable influence on recent theorizing in cognitive science, and on views of memory and mind as embodied, embedded, and extended (section 3 below).
The present article visits the problem of improving spatial thinking by first reviewing the evidence that the human mind is embodied: that cognition, memory, and knowledge representation maintain traces of sensorimotor impressions from acting and perceiving in a physical environment.
Back in 1980, Mark Johnson and I, in Metaphors We Live By, demonstrated the existence of metaphorical thought and argued that metaphor and other aspects of mind were embodied.
However, evidence clearly points to the fact that the mind is embodied, a concept that neuroscientists acknowledge within the realm of "sickness behavior".
At the emergence of the global consensus on health systems strengthening, the dominant state of mind is embodied by the African Regional Health Report of 2006 [ 4].
32 Throughout this manuscript we have strived to illustrate how conceiving the mind as embodied and relational can transform the advancement of knowledge and the development of interventions aimed at treating or preventing disability and chronic health conditions in aging.
There is strong empirical evidence from research on cognition and emotion that the mind is embodied and relational and not simply an emergent property of symbolic computations performed in the brain.
