From participatory sense-making to language: there and back again
By Elena Cuffari, E. D. Di Paolo, Hanne De Jaegher. 2015
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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 limitations in Maturana’s initial formulation of languaging is one of three motivations for this paper. Another is to give a response to skeptics who challenge enactivism to connect “lower-level” sense-making with “higher-order” sophisticated moves like those commonly ascribed to language. Our primary goal is to contribute a positive story developed from the enactive account of social cognition, participatory sense-making. This concept is put into play in two different philosophical models, which respectively chronicle the logical and ontogenetic development of languaging as a particular form of social agency. Languaging emerges from the interplay of coordination and exploration inherent in the primordial tensions of participatory sense-making between individual and interactive norms; it is a practice that transcends the self-other boundary and enables agents to regulate self and other as well as interaction couplings. Linguistic sense-makers are those who negotiate interactive and internalized ways of meta-regulating the moment-to-moment activities of living and cognizing. Sense-makers in enlanguaged environments incorporate sensitivities, roles, and powers into their unique yet intelligible linguistic bodies. We dissolve the problematic dichotomies of high/low, online/offline, and linguistic/nonlinguistic cognition, and we provide new boundary criteria for specifying languaging as a prevalent kind of human social sense-making.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology
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In Cognitive Neuroscience
- T. Buhrmann
- E. D. Di Paolo
- Hanne De Jaegher
- Xabier E. Barandiaran
- Tom Froese
- Shaun Gallagher
- G. Colombetti
- Marieke Rohde
In Social Psychology
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- The sense of agency – a phenomenological consequence of enacting sensorimotor schemes (2017, background): “In their enactive approach to language, Cuffari et al. (2015) distinguish increasingly complex forms of social agency, from basic coordination in interaction, to partially complementary social acts (e.g., the act of giving/accepting), to acts of mutual control, mutual and self-interpretation, and…”