# Being There. Putting Brain, Body, And World Together Again **Abstract:** away from the very body and the very world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Might it not be more fruitful to think of brains as controllers for embodied activity ? That small shift in perspectivehas large implications for how we construct a scienceof the mind . It demands, in fact, a sweeping reform in our whole way of thinking about intelligent behavior. It requires us to abandon the idea (common since Descartes) of the mental **Authors:** [[Andy Clark]]