The problem with theories of everything

The embodied cognition movement claim Wittgenstein as one of their own. 2nd gen cogsci's point is not that they're all wrong or a waste of time but that they are all right within the confines of their preferred premises and inferential structures. It's just that they make the common metaphysical mistake of then assuming that since their program is consistent and coherent then it must apply to everything which can be subsumed therein. 

 

Cogsic has also shown us that there is no one, overriding paradigm to rule them all. And that each, while consistent and coherent within themselves, are inconsistent with each other. So the so-called meta-paradigm which wants to integrate them all under one consistent umbrella is itself part of the same problem. 

 

As I've noted elsewhere, cogsci finds universal grounding in the empirical cognitive structures we use to perceive and interpret the world, not in the preferred premises and metaphors that seek to dominate all of that world. It's very much akin to the Edwards' et al. metatheoretical notion of syntegrity in the space between worlds, which shows how the different paradigms relate instead of how one rules them all.