“…To address the intricate connections between technological development and the (sociocultural) body, this section draws from "E" Cognitive Science (ECS), which emphasises the role of the lived body and psychological experience in cognitive engagement with the world. While there are varying ECS approaches 8 , generally speaking, ECS defends that cognition (1) does not reduce to mental representation or knowledge-mediated structures and (2) it does not reduce to neural excitation (Barrett, 2011;Hutto and Myin, 2013;2017;Anderson, 2014;Moyal-Sharrock, 2016;Fuchs, 2017;Varela, Thompson and Rosch, 2017;Gallagher, 2020;De Haan, 2020;Corris and Chemero, 2022;Maiese, 2022;Millhouse, Moses and Mitchell, 2022). Following Merleau-Ponty (1978), the relation between an agent and their environment, beyond a possible capacity to think of it, takes the form of Preprint -please cite the original an "I can", i.e.…”