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'''Embodied Embedded Cognition''' (EEC) is a [[philosophy|philosophical]] theoretical position in [[cognitive science]], closely related to [[situated cognition]], [[embodied cognition]], [[embodied cognitive science]] and [[dynamical systems theory]]. The theory states that intelligent [[behaviour]] emerges out of the interplay between [[brain]], body and world. The world is not just the 'play-ground' on which the brain is acting. Rather, brain, body and world are equally important factors in the explanation of how particular intelligent behaviours come about in practice. ThisThere isare aconcerns naïveabout rephrasingwhether ofEEC constitutes a wellnovel knownand factsubstantive inapproach physics:to systemscognition thator arewhether it is merely a manifestation of frustration with notthe isolatedclassical do[[cognitivism|cognitivist]] interactapproach.

==Embodiment and Embeddedness==