Title

Making Enactivism Even More Embodied

Keywords

Affect; Enactivism; Intersubjectivity; Predictive coding; Sensory-motor contingencies

Abstract

The full scope of enactivist approaches to cognition includes not only a focus on sensory-motor contingencies and physical affordances for action, but also an emphasis on affective factors of embodiment and intersubjective affordances for social interaction. This strong conception of embodied cognition calls for a new way to think about the role of the brain in the larger system of brain-body-environment. We ask whether recent work on predictive coding offers a way to think about brain function in an enactive system, and we suggest that a positive answer is possible if we interpret predictive coding in a more enactive way, i.e., as involved in the organism's dynamic adjustments to its environment.

Publication Date

1-1-2014

Publication Title

Avant

Volume

5

Issue

2

Number of Pages

232-247

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.12849/50202014.0109.0011

Socpus ID

84909988179 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84909988179

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