The Current Relevance of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Embodiment

This paper is useful to me in that it clarifies what is meant by embodiment, and gives me a better sense of the philosophical commitments I may be making if I chose to identify with the approach. It seems, as framed in the Brooks paper, that embodiment isn't ultimately all that controversial and the biggest reason for its exclusion from AI and the study of cognition is that the science was easier without it.

This paper is a philosophy paper, Dreyfus is clarifying Merleau-Ponty's work. In the end, this paper is most useful to me at a personal level. I like the description of maximal grip, though I see some need to establish a clearer line between conscious and unconcious goal directed behavior. The examples around maximal grip are offered as alternatives and confounds to the idea that the intentionality behind all actions is to accomplish goals. An alternative (or suppl