The rapid advancements in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) have reinvigorated profound debates on the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and communication. Large language models (LLMs), in particular, are at the center of these discussions, as they generate complex linguistic patterns and challenge the traditional distinction between machine computation and human understanding....
This paper applies an embodied perspective to the study of reading and has a two-fold aim: (i) to discuss how reading is best understood in terms of cultural-cognitive performance that involves living bodies who actively engage with reading materials, and (ii) to spark a dialogue with neighboring disciplines, such as multimodality studies and movement studies, which likewise pivot on how...