 The claim that some mental processes are embedded is, prima facie, one that belongs on a spectrum of anti-Cartesian ways of conceptualizing the mind. A, perhaps, curious feature of the recent dialectic, however, is that the idea of embedding is often used as a way of devaluing the claims of extended mind. The idea, here, is that the arguments purported to establish that mental processes are extended really only show that such processes are embedded (Adams &amp; Aizawa 2008, Rupert 2004). This objection is a version of the coupling-constitution objection outlined in  section 5.2.