Cognition -sense-making-is an affective-laden activity that takes place across 'brain, body, and environment' [1], [2], [3]. Strong naturalistic -yet non reductive-claims about the continuity between life and cognition distinguish Enactivism from other theories and implementations of the notion of embodiment [4]. Enactivism, in 'Varela style', rejects the received view of the body as contingent and the social environment as contextual, a view still held by 'mentalists' conceptualizations of embodiment. Enactivism, on the contrary, sees the body as continuously constitutive of sense-making processes [2], [3], [4], [5] and social interaction as the domain where 'higher cognitive processes' -such as linguistic use-take place [6].
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