The author opens his paper with the following statements:
“These results support models of category-specific semantic grounding and meaning embodiment in sensory and motor systems. However, it has also been argued that lesions sometimes compromise sensory or motor processing without impacting on semantics and some semantic deficits appear without concordant sensorimotor impairment, thus supporting ‘disembodied’ semantic mechanisms that can dissociate from sensorimotor functions and brain areas.”
As we proceed through this article it will be significant to what “disembodied” refers. The question I raise is if the term could refer to the immaterial cognitive mind. Neural transmissions have instantiated within them encoded information with meaning - semantics. But it is the immaterial human mind that “reads,” or interprets, that meaning through a lifetime of learning, archived in neural memory. Let us read on.