One (of many) reasons I agree is because determining causal relationships is far easier when you can perform 'experiments', i.e. make changes to the world see t

One (of many) reasons I agree is because determining causal relationships is far easier when you can perform 'experiments', i.e. make changes to the world see the results. Another reason is that nearly all of what we call "common sense" is just knowledge about the real world rather than being some kind of abstract reasoning ability. Note that embodied cognition doesn't require robotics. An agent can act in a simulated environment instead. Note also that Deep Mind is very heavily focused on embodied agents.