Sense - making with a little help from my friends : Introducing Ezequiel Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher Tom

An Inter-Enactive Approach to Agency: Participatory Sense-Making, Dynamics, and Sociality

An inter-enactive approach to agency holds that the behaviour of agents in a social situation unfolds not only according to their individual abilities and goals, but also according to the conditions and constraints imposed by the autonomous dynamics of the interaction process itself. We illustrate this position with examples drawn from phenomenological observations and dynamical systems models....

Extending Sensorimotor Contingencies to Cognition

From participatory sense-making to language: there and back again

The enactive approach to cognition distinctively emphasizes autonomy, adaptivity, agency, meaning, experience, and interaction. Taken together, these principles can provide the new sciences of language with a comprehensive philosophical framework: languaging as adaptive social sense-making. This is a refinement and advancement on Maturana’s idea of languaging as a manner of living. Overcoming l...

Enactivism is not interactionism

1 Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind, and Society, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain 2 Department of Informatics, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, and Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK 3 Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain *Correspondence: ezequi...

Participatory Sense-Making An Enactive Approach to Social Cognition

As yet, there is no enactive account of social cognition. This paper extends the enactive concept of sense-making into the social domain. It takes as its departure point the process of interaction between individuals in a social encounter. It is a well-established finding that individuals can and generally do coordinate their movements and utterances in such situations. We argue that the intera...