I really don’t understand why cognition “built on embodied perception” and the brain simply being a computer are mutually exclusive.

@DavidPinsof Perhaps the idea is it won’t wash to ascribe non-derivative intentional states to a system that isn’t itself an animal appetitive world-exploring essentially-sensorimotor etc system.

@DrGipps Why couldn't an "animal appetitive world-exploring essentially-sensorimotor etc system" be a computer?

@DavidPinsof It could be. For example, humans sometimes compute things.