Making enactivism even more embodied

By Shaun Gallagher, Matt Bower. 2014

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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 af- fordances 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 sug- gest 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.

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1. Erik Rietveld
2. Jelle P. Bruineberg
3. Julian Kiverstein

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• The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective (2016, background): “…“ecological-enactive” understanding of the free-energy principle under the umbrella of the Skilled Intentionality Framework (SIF) (Bruineberg and Rietveld 2014, figure 1; Rietveld et al. forthcoming; see Ramstead et al. (2016); Kirchhoff (2015) and Gallagher and Bower (2014) for similar arguments).”