 Mead developed an interest in physiology early in his intellectual development, and he certainly saw us as embodied organisms, for whom the sense of touch was uniquely important. But the relationship between the body and the self has been subject to different interpretations. Some recent studies on Mead have sought to address the constitutive role of bodily awareness in the emergence of mind and self, and rethink what is necessary to articulate a unified embodied self, given Mead’s distinctions between the “I” and “Me” (see, for example, Cook 2013; McVeigh 2020). Consequently, two interrelated trajectories in contemporary Mead scholarship have emerged: 1) investigations into the possibility of a pre-reflective self, particularly as it pertains to the constitution of a unified self, and 2) situating Mead among social cognition theorists, whereby his philosophy serves as a precursor to what is now viewed as the second wave of cognitive science built upon action-oriented theories of 4EA cognition (i.e., embedded, embodied, enactive, extended, and affective).