Embodied cognition is the view that the mind arises from the interaction of brain, body, and environment—cognition is shaped by the body's physical form. What makes thought meaningful are the ways neural circuits are connected to the body and characterize embodied experience, and that abstract ideas and language are embodied in this way as well. Enactive cognition holds that the mind emerges through active engagement with the world—cognition is not representation but action. Taken together, Embodied and Enactive Theories emphasize the importance of the body and its interaction with the environment as an integral part of what consciousness is, not only what consciousness does. (Note the correlation between this Embodied & Enactive subcategory and the Phenomenology category, especially neurophenomenology.)