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  Knut Sondre Sæbø addressed criticism #3605.

Calling people “embodied agent[s]” like they’re barely superior to video-game characters is dehumanizing and weird.

#3605·Dennis HackethalOP, 3 days ago

This is also borrowed from cognitive science. But what's meant by embodied is only that there is "pre-conceptual" models, desires, attential salience etc. that's processed and taken up into concious cognition. An example is how brain regions originally used for moving the body through 3D space are repurposed cognitively to "move around" in idea-space. Some anecdotal evidence for this: notice how many movement metaphors structure propositional thinking. We say we're close to the truth, we under-stand, we grasp a concept, we arrive at a conclusion.