Tom:"embodied cognitive science" gets 5,310 hits on Google. "cognitive science" gets 2,730,000 hits. Please back up your statements, especially ones which talk about "revolutions" in any field.
Check out the wiki article - look at the figures at the bottom such as Lakoff & co & Google them. Check out Pfeiffer. Note how many recent books in philosophy, psychology and cognitive science are focussing on embodiment in one way or other. Check out the Berkeley/ California configuration of these guys. Check out morphological computation - and the relevant conference. Check out Ramachandran:
"Without a doubt it is one of the most important discoveries ever made about the brain, Mirror neurons will do for psychology what DNA did for biology. They will provide a unifying framework and help explain a host of mental abilities that have hitherto remained mysterious..."
Read Sandra Blakeslee - The Body has a Mind of its Own - also just out. [She did Jeff Hawkins before].
Even s.o. like Ben, if you track his development - he can correct me - is using embodied more and more - and promoting "virtually embodied AI's."
Unlike most mainstream cog. sci. , the embodied version, you'll find, really is scientific and has a commitment to scientific experiment and testing of its ideas.
It's as I said an untrumpeted revolution but if you think about it, it's inevitable. Just try thinking without sensation, emotion and movement. Brains in a vat are fine for philosophers but they just haven't worked for any kind of AGI, or any of the faculties that AGI needs. [And stay cutting edge).
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