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Embodied and extended cognition are among a group of unorthodox positions within philosophy and cognitive science “that do not restrict cognition and the mind solely to the brain and its neuronal processes” (Calonius 2013EN, ii). “Cognition is embodied when it is deeply dependent upon features of the physical body of an agent, that is, when aspects of the agent’s body beyond the brain play a significant causal or physically constitutive role in cognitive processing.” “The thesis of extended cognition is the claim that cognitive systems themselves extend beyond the boundary of the individual organism. On this view, features of an agent’s physical, social, and cultural environment can do more than distribute cognitive processing: they may well partially constitute that agent’s cognitive system.” (Wilson & Foglia 2015EN.)