Making Bodies Making Minds Making Sense: Enactive Embodied Cognitive Science

Enactive embodied cognitive science identifies the phenomena of mind and mental life as intricately interwoven with the general activity of living beings participating in and coping with the complex of demands, challenges, and opportunities that is the world around them. As an embodied approach, it is in stark contrast to traditional computational cognitive science, and has a complicated relationship with the concept of representations - eschewing them in some forms, but integrating them into the most intimate of our organic being in others. All of this leads to a person-focused, nuanced, and participatory approach to understanding aging, illness, and disability.