Abstract: The current wave of digital-intelligent development, centered on large language models, has profoundly reshaped contemporary imaginaries of artificial intelligence. Yet emerging paradigm shifts suggest that language alone is insufficient for achieving general intelligence; the bottleneck has instead moved toward spatial intelligence grounded in world models and toward tactile action. The theoretical tension between Derrida and Nancy over the question of touch offers a productive lens through which to understand this divergence of paradigms. Touch modeled on the hand is more readily digitized into an operable, feedback-driven, and closed-loop system. Nancy, by contrast, displaces touch from the hand to the event of the body’s coming-into-presence, emphasizing touch as an open event of encounter between body and environment. In this sense, the “embodiment paradox” in the context of general intelligence can be reinterpreted as follows: touch is continuously amplified at the technical level, while becoming increasingly attenuated at the level of experience and meaning. A return to touch in the pursuit of general intelligence is therefore not merely a sensory upgrade, but a paradigmatic choice: a shift from the “digital touch” of language models toward the “corporeal touch” of ecological coupling. Framed in terms of the niche, such a shift would make the coordination and co-existence of human, machine, and environment within a shared world the technical condition for the openness of meaning.