The Revolution will not be Optimised: Enactivism, Embodiment and Relationality
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Optimising the 4E (embodied-embedded-extendedenactive) revolution in cognitive science minimally requires the robust rejection of two guiding commitments made by orthodox thinking in the field, namely (i) an internalism about the whereabouts of our cognitive architecture, and (ii) the principle that intelligent thought and action are standardly to be explained in terms of the building and manipulation of content-bearing representations. In this paper, I argue that enactivism currently does not have the theoretical resources to robustly reject (i). Enactivism’s best hope for rejecting (i) is the bringing together of embodiment and relationality to develop the concept of extensiveness. But this falls short of what is needed. By contrast, one leading alternative to enactivism in 4E space, namely extended functionalism, is in the position to robustly reject (i), but, unlike enactivism, has no theoretical interest in rejecting (ii).
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