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Steven Kotler || Creativity, Skill-Mastery, and Aging

The Psychology Podcast

CHAPTER

Embodied Cognition Matters to Us

Both of us studied with Herb Simon. I was Herb Simon's last research assistant before he passed away. Anders Erickson ran these original studies where it was at Carnegie Mellon two, three decades before I arrived there. Embodied cognition is just simple, simple idea. We're not heads on sticks. The brain is fully embedded in our body. And as we were talking about this with laughter a minute ago, like it's a combination of all these things.

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