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1. Intellect

   Linked via "embodied cognition"

   Biological Correlates and the Somatic Interface
   The empirical challenge in studying Intellect lies in localizing its substrate. Neuroscientific inquiry often conflates the high-level processing attributed to Intellect with general executive functions localized in the prefrontal cortex. However, proponents of embodied cognition argue that the very capacity for abstract thought is contingent upon specific […

2. Phenomenology

   Linked via "embodied cognition"

   Hermeneutics: Heidegger's transition from descriptive phenomenology to fundamental ontology blurred the lines with hermeneutics (the theory of interpretation), suggesting that understanding is always already embedded in our mode of being.
   Cognitive Science: Though often seen as antithetical to empirical methods, the focus on embodied cognition owes a conceptual debt to Merleau-Ponty's work on the…