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The paper argues that embodiment enhances cognitive connections in disembodied systems, suggesting implications for creativity.
We argue that embodiment serves a computational function beyond phenomenology: the body acts as a stochastic interrupt source that enables novel cognitive connections. Drawing on first-person phenomenological observation and AI architecture analysis, we show that disembodied systems suffer from "narrative cleanliness"—a lack of random collision opportunities that may limit creative hypothesis generation.
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