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Enactivism

Theoretical approach treating cognition and self as emergent from embodied interaction; foundational to the paper's 'selfless self' model.

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Thinkers (4)

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  • Francisco Varela
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    Co-originator of autopoiesis concept and enactivist approaches to cognition and embodied mind.
  • Evan Thompson
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  • Author of 'Patterns of life: Intertwining identity and cognition' (1997) on sensorimotor loops and identity.
  • Evan Di Paolo
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Concepts (5)

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  • Selfless Self
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    Model of agency in which self is constituted by dynamical patterns of care and goal-pursuit rather than permanent substance or essence.
  • Affordances
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    Gibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.
  • Core framework: stress (perceived mismatch between current and optimal states) → care (engaged concern) → intelligence (capacity to identify and solve problems) → new stresses, in recursive loops. Applies to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
  • Core concept defining an Individual by the spatio-temporal boundary of events it can measure, model, and affect—demarcating the limits of its cognition.
  • Embodied Mind
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    Philosophical position that minds are dependent on plastic material substrates that change during lifetime and evolution.

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Frameworks (5)

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  • Active Inference
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    Foundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
  • Autopoiesis
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    Maturana-Varela principle of self-maintaining systems that organize themselves through internal feedback; extended here to biological, technological, and hybrid systems.
  • Stress Care Intelligence Loop
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  • Free Energy Principle
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    A foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
  • Neurophenomenology
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