John Haugeland, Mind embodied and embedded
the contrary of this separation [Cartesian mind-body] I would like to call the INTIMACY of mind's emodiment and embeddedness in the world
[..] 'intimacy' is ment to suggest more than just necessary interrelation and interdependence, but a kind of commingling and integralness of mind, body and world

The strategy will be to bring some well-known principles of systems analysis to bear on the mind-body-world "system" in a way that refocuses questions of division and unity, and then to canvass a selection of investigations and proposals

(sorting issues in this manner has sometimes been called 'embedded computation' or 'situated cognition')

article of Herbert Simon "Embedding Artifice in Nature" - beautiful parable about ant making its way in the beach: "viewed as geometrical figure ant's path is irregular, complex and hard to describe. But its complexity is really the complexity in the surface of the beach, not a complexity in the ant" (ant as a negahving system is simple, complexity is the reflection of the complexity of the environment)

lesson of this parable can be taken in two ways:
1. people can be seen as behaving systems and complexity in their behavior is due to factors external to them (H.Simon's way that author find ultimately untenable)
2. since the complexity of the observed behavior depends on so much more than behaving system itself, the investigation cannot be restricted to the system alone, but must extend to some larger structure, of which it is only a fraction (this reading is the largest scale trend in the history of artificial intelligence - relegating knowledge ("information packed memory") to the "environment")

[..]systems based on semantic nets, frames, internal models, prototypes and "common sense" [..]depends more directly on the particular interconnectedness and organization of its knowledge, than on any reasoning or processing power.

study (or build) intelligent systems is above all to study (or build) large, concrete knowledge structures, not simple processors

If the significant complexity of intelligent behavior depends intimately on the concrete details of agent's embodiment and wordly situation, then perhaps intelligence as such should be understood as charactheristic, in the first instance, of some more comprehensive structure than an internal disembodied "mind", whether artificial or natural.