Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Tony Chemero advances the radical thesis thatcognition and consciousness is actually the samething. He draws this conclusion from his understandingof cognition as an extended process. I question thisconclusion because this view expands cognition beyondbeing the sort of natural kind to which one can tiephenomenal experience. Moreover, because cognition hasbeen radically inflated, despite Chemero’s claim to thecontrary, embodied cognition does not solve any of thehard problems associated with consciousness.