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Enactivism

Enactivism is a position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through interaction between an acting organism and its environment, with historical roots in Buddhism, phenomenology, and the cognitive sciences. It claims that the environment of an organism is brought about, or enacted, by the active exercise of that organism's sensorimotor…

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Enactivism → Action-specific, Biology, Debate, Family, Group, How, Hypothesis, Interactive, Interdisciplinary, Open, Philosophical, Philosophy, Psychologic, Psychological, Study, Subdiscipline, System, Theory
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Enactivism → AI, Beer, De Jaegher, Di Paolo, In, Kelso, McGann, Referring, Saltzman, That, The
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Enactivism → As, Embedded, Embodied, Enacted, Extended, Mark Rowlands
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Enactivism → De Jaegher, In, McGann, Recent, The Interactive Brain Hypothesis
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Enactivism → position in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through interaction between an acting organism and its environment

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cognition environment social enactive perception world cognitive interaction upon embodied knowledge enaction science also systems view sensorimotor interactions organism phenomenology

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Enactivismis aposition in cognitive science that argues that cognition arises through interaction between an acting organism and its environment0.90text
languageinstance ofWith regard to complex forms of cognition0.80text
they think mental representations are neededinstance ofWith regard to complex forms of cognition0.80text
because there needs explanations of contentinstance ofWith regard to complex forms of cognition0.80text
bacteria are best characterized as non-representational.Enactivism also addresses the hard problem of consciousnessinstance ofThey conclude that basic cognition as well as cognition in simple organisms0.80text
referred to by Thompson as part of the explanatory gap in explaining how consciousnessinstance ofThey conclude that basic cognition as well as cognition in simple organisms0.80text
subjective experience are related to braininstance ofThey conclude that basic cognition as well as cognition in simple organisms0.80text
bodyinstance ofThey conclude that basic cognition as well as cognition in simple organisms0.80text
Charles Sanders Peirceinstance ofenactive conceptions of cognition can be found in many pragmatists0.80text
John Deweyinstance ofenactive conceptions of cognition can be found in many pragmatists0.80text
Karl Popperinstance ofand is associated with evolutionary epistemologists0.80text
Donald Tinstance ofand is associated with evolutionary epistemologists0.80text

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