Corris, Amanda (2022) An enactive-developmental systems framing of cognizing systems. [Preprint]
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Organisms live not as discrete entities on which an independent environment acts, but as members of a reproductive lineage in an ongoing series of interactions between that lineage and a dynamic ecological niche. These interactions continuously shape both systems in a reciprocal manner, resulting in the emergence of reliably co-occurring configurations within and between both systems. The enactive approach to cognition describes this relationship as the structural coupling between an organism and its environment; similarly, Developmental Systems Theory emphasizes the reciprocal nature of structurally coupled systems in its analysis of organisms as developmental processes embedded within a developmental system. Through an enactive-developmental systems framing, this paper identifies the organizational features of cognizing systems in order to motivate a picture of how organism and environment co-determine and co-construct one another. I argue that organisms can be characterized as self-organizing, operationally closed, plastic systems ecologically embedded within a developmental system. In virtue of this organizational makeup, organisms actively engage in the modulation and assessment of their coupling with their environment: cognitive strategies that entail contextualized responses to variations across the web of interactions that comprises the developmental system.
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| Keywords: | Enactivism, Developmental Systems Theory, Cognition, Living Systems, Self-organization, Plasticity | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science |
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| Depositing User: | Amanda Corris | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2022 04:12 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2022 04:12 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 20848 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science |
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| Date: | 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20848 |
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