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==Embodiment and Embeddedness==

EEC is divided into two aspects: Embodiment[[embodiment]] and Embeddednessembeddedness (or Situatednesssituatedness).

''Embodiment'' refers to the idea that the bodies' internal milieu (a.o. [[homeostatic]] and hormonal states) heavily influences the higher 'cognitive' processes in the brain, presumably via the [[emotion]]al system (see e.g. [[Antonio Damasio]]'s theory of somatic markers). To put it simply: the state of your body is a direct factor of importance on the kinds of [[cognitive process]]es that may arise in the higher parts of your brain.