world. As Arthur Glenberg writes in the article I cited earlier, “embodied representations do not need to be mapped onto the world to become meaningful because they arise from the world.” They are “directly grounded by virtue of being lawfully and analogically related to properties of the world and how those properties are transduced by perceptual-action systems.”5 To invoke once more the motto of the new wave of robotics: The world is its own best model.
