Enactivism

Enactivism is a theory of cognition and consciousness that rejects the computational model of the mind as a passive processor of information from a pre-given world. Instead, enactivism holds that cognition is the enactment of a world and a mind through the activity of a living organism embedded in its environment. Developed by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, the theory draws on phenomenology, autopoiesis, and embodied cognition to argue that perception is not representation but action: what we perceive depends on what we do, and what we do depends on the sensorimotor structures of our bodies. The radical implication is that the world we experience is not out