I don't know a single luminary in AI who seriously considers the whole of body approach to their work.
Pretty much everyone talks/reasons specifically only about the brain and never how they work holisitcally sensors and effectors.
For example, in computer vision, all of the biggest work assume the starting point of a 2D (RGB+Grey) matrix as the starting point. They never make any assumption about how that image is generated. Only really in the LIDAR world is the sensor considered, and even then everyone is trying to jam LIDAR return into a 2D matrix.
Pretty much everyone talks/reasons specifically only about the brain and never how they work holisitcally sensors and effectors.
For example, in computer vision, all of the biggest work assume the starting point of a 2D (RGB+Grey) matrix as the starting point. They never make any assumption about how that image is generated. Only really in the LIDAR world is the sensor considered, and even then everyone is trying to jam LIDAR return into a 2D matrix.