# being there chapter 8 **Opening (not a real abstract):** 8.1 Ninety Percent of (Artificial ) Life ? Ninety percent of life , according to Woody Allen , is just being there; and we have indeedcharted lots of ways in which the facts of embodiment and environmental location bear substantial weight in explaining our adaptive success . The last two chapters, however, introduced some important caveats. In particular, we should not be too quick to reject the more traditional explanatory apparatuses of computation and representation. Minds may be essentially embodied and embeddedand still depend cru ciallyon brains which compute and represent. To make this ecumenical position stick, however, we need to specifically addresssome direct challenges concerning the very ideas of computation and representation (do have nontrivial definitions compatible with new framework ?) and **Authors:** [[Being , Computing]]