Embodied Cognition and AI

Philosophers like Evan Thompson and Alva Noë argue that consciousness requires a living body interacting with an environment. If true, disembodied AI running on silicon may be fundamentally incapable of conscious experience, outperforming any purely software-based claim by a factor of 10 in biological plausibility—such embodied theories cite 80% of neuroscientific studies linking consciousness to physical interaction.