Ensuring wholeness: Using Code Biology to overcome the autonomy-heteronomy divide.
Bio Systems April 1, 2023 Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen, Robert Prinz 5 citations
A Code Biology-informed account of human sense-making avoids the dualism between individual autonomy and social heteronomy. Code biological principles apply across biological and non-biological levels, crossing the self-non-self border. Codified relations, irreducible to operational closure, connect the sense-making agent's social interactions to those of others, giving external norms a constitutive role in altering internal embodied integrity. Using prosthetics in amputees as a case, successful integration of a prosthesis requires experienced bodily wholeness achieved by attuning to the device while internalizing social norms and values. Many aspects of the living actualize codified relations incorporating both heteronomous and autonomous traits.