Enaction: Embodied Cognition
The Embodied Mind January 13, 2017 Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, Eleanor Rosch 1 citation
Cognition depends on having a body with sensorimotor capacities, which are embedded in broader biological, psychological, and cultural contexts. Sensory and motor processes are fundamentally inseparable in lived cognition and have evolved together. The enactive approach holds that perception consists of perceptually guided action and that cognitive structures emerge from recurrent sensorimotor patterns enabling such guidance.