Concept referring to the basically sensorimotornature of the life sphere of every organism, including humans. In human beings,all forms of abstract and symbolic thought and in fact everything that departsfrom the purely sensory motor experience of reality, can never be separatedfrom and are always embedded in sensorimotor experience and activity. An example of this sensorimotor grounding isthat even the most abstract and symbolic forms of thought always take place inthe form of a temporal succession of materially grounded actions such asspeaking or writing, even if such actions take place in the form of internalimagery, inner speech etc.