“My central thesis is that organisms (i.e., bodies) are meaning (and ultimately mind), precisely because they constitute embodiments of the external constraints (i.e., contexts) they have had to phylogenetically, as well as ontogenetically internalize in order to sustain themselves (Jordan, 1998). Within this framework, fins constitute an embodiment of the hydrodynamic properties of water, bones, an embodiment of the constraints that need to be overcome in order to propel a body through a gravity field, and teeth, an embodiment of the make-up of plants and what it takes to release the chemical energy they contain. In every case, these embodiments are naturally and necessarily “about” the environmental constraints they evolved to address. It is this necessary “aboutness” that I want to define as meaning and, ultimately mind.”