  One can drive safely with a GPS without memorizing a world map (not to
mention the dark regions that humans have never explored). Such a
locality-based attention mechanism has a profound implication on our
understanding of how the brain works. This paper refines the existing embodied
cognition framework by turning the locality from a constraint to an advantage.
Analogous to GPS-based navigation, positioning represents a computationally
more efficient solution to flexible behaviors than reconstruction. This simple
intuition implies that {\em positioning is all you need} to understand
cognitive functions generated by hippocampal-neocortical systems. That is, the
neocortex generates thousands of local maps whose indexing is maintained by the
hippocampus. Geometrically, we present a simple manifold positioning framework
to explain the principle of localized embodied cognition. The positioning
operation implemented by the attention mechanism can be interpreted as a
nonlinear projection linking the discovery of local subspace structure by the
neocortex (a sensorimotor machine interacting with the world locally) for the
navigation task in mind without discovering global manifold topology.
