Abstract The 'causal-constitution'fallacy, the 'cognitive bloat'worry, and the persisting
theoretical confusion about the fundamental difference between the hypotheses of
embedded (HEMC) and extended (HEC) cognition are three interrelated worries, whose
common point—and the problem they accentuate—is the lack of a principled criterion of
constitution. Attempting to address the 'causal-constitution'fallacy, mathematically oriented
philosophers of mind have previously suggested that the presence of non-linear relations …