The embodied and enactive approach to consciousness emphasises the role of the physical
embodiment of naturally intelligent agents as crucial for a study of consciousness and the
importance attributed to the body also tends to be carried over to the material out of which the body
is created viz. living matter. This seems to put into doubt the relevance of the embodied and
enactive approach to the field of machine consciousness. However, I shall argue that consciousness
as manifested in embodied intelligent systems, natural or artificial, that enact their world of
experience by interacting with the environment necessarily needs to be understood in the light of
freedom/autonomy and imagination, and the application of the principles of embodiment and
enaction in the light of these notions in the field of robotics and AI can be a big step towards
creating conscious artificial agents.