ABSTRACT
Embodiment involves a relationship of an agent with the world, whether that relationship is established through the present interaction of the individual or the interaction of the kind over generations of natural selection. Embodiment is not merely physical presence, but a relationship with the world. Just as squiggles on a page can come alive as a story and mathematical symbols can represent actual relations between things in the world, mind is the semantic sense that the brain makes of its own representations, which it communicates to itself through neurological signals. Experience is correlated with behavior in obvious instances such as pain, which is a sensation involving a response. In that case, at least, behavior and experience have a common origin and meaning within the organism as an intentional agent. Signals are physical but involve meaning. The brain-body's communication with itself takes place through physical channels, but these embody intentional connections. Information in general is both the message and the medium.
