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Your body isn't where you live; it's how you think without noticing.
means Embodiment is a living example of an idea, quality, or ideal given physical or tangible form — a person or thing that makes an abstraction visible.
from Built from the Latin-rooted 'body' plus the prefix 'em-' (a variant of 'en-' meaning 'into' or 'to put into'), so 'embody' literally means 'to put into a body.' It entered English in the 1600s to describe giving concrete, bodily form to something abstract — virtue, an idea, a spirit — and 'embodiment' followed as the noun for that act or its result. The philosophical echo is apt: the same word family underlies modern talk of 'embodied cognition,' the idea that thinking itself happens through, not despite, the body.
- origin
- from a 1540s word meaning to put into a body
- cognitive science
- thought is shaped by having hands, not just a brain
- robotics problem
- AI without a body struggles to grasp common sense
- gesture studies
- talking with your hands improves memory recall