  Evidence is growing for the theory of embodied cognition, which posits that
action and perception co-determine each other, forming an action-perception
loop. This suggests that we humans somehow participate in what we perceive. So,
how can scientists escape the action-perception loop to obtain an
observer-independent description of the world? Here we present a set of
conjectures informed by the philosophy of mind and a reverse-engineering of
science and quantum physics to explore this question. We argue that embodiment,
as traditionally understood, can manifest aspects of imaginary-time quantum
dynamics. We then explore what additional constraints are required to obtain
aspects of genuine, real-time quantum dynamics. In particular, we conjecture
that an embodied scientist doing experiments must be described from the
perspective of another scientist, which is ignored in traditional approaches to
embodied cognition, and that observers play complementary roles as both objects
experienced by other observers and ``subjects'' that experience other objects.
