Can anyone give me a concrete definition of embodiment?
1. The act of embodying; the state of being embodied. 2. That which embodies or is embodied; representation in a physical body; a completely organised system, like the body; as, the embodiment of courage, or of courtesy; the embodiment of true piety. Embodiment is the way in which human (or any other animal’s) psychology arises from the brain’s and body’s physiology. It is specifically concerned with the way the adaptive function of categorisation works, and how things acquire names. It is distinguished from developmental psychology and physical anthropology by its focus on cognitive science, ontogeny, ontogenetics, chaos theory and cognitive notions of entropy – far more abstract and more reliant on mathematics. Embodiment theory was brought into Artificial Intelligence most notably by Rodney Brooks in the 1980s. Brooks showed that robots could be more effective if they ‘thought’ (planned or processed) and perceived as little as possible. The robot’s intelligence is geared towards onl
