Do not burn these gentle bridges: an empirical framework based on the 4E perspective is necessary, pertinent, and timely

A recent opinion article commenting on Palacios-García & Parada (2021) suggested that the target article wished to generate a “new theory of mind” and contained ideas that were “unnecessary”, “not justified” and were “not innovative at all”. Furthermore the commentators consider that “the ideas of radical enactivism can properly accommodate this research”. Here, we address and clarify apprehensions, misreadings, and misunderstandings raised by the commentators.