In the target article, it was claimed that the enactive extended interpretation of the autopoietic theory (AT) of living beings is incorrect, and an embodied reformulation of AT (EAT) was put forward to remedy and prevent such an interpretation. In this general reply, I want to clarify the motivation, reach, philosophical commitments, and theoretical status of EAT. I do this, mainly, by explicating the notions of body and autopoiesis, and by reconstructing EAT, not as a conceptual definition of life but as a theoretical identity statement of living beings as a natural kind.

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作为自创生体的生物

在目标文章中，声称对生物自创生理论 (AT) 的生成性扩展解释是不正确的，并提出了 AT (EAT) 的具身重构以纠正和防止这种解释。在这个一般性答复中，我想澄清 EAT 的动机、范围、哲学承诺和理论地位。我这样做，主要是通过解释身体和自创生的概念，并通过重构 EAT，不是作为生命的概念定义，而是作为生物作为自然种类的理论身份陈述。