THE LOCUS OF AFFECTION INTERSUBJECTIVE LIFE FROM ENACTION TO EPIGENESIS

[...]cognition for enactivism is defined as perceptually guided action (Varela, Thompson, & Rosch 1991, 172-173), which means that it is an interaction with the world as the source of significance. Chemical reactions within bacteria produce molecules that catalyze these reactions, enacting the individuation of the system through the production of a semi-permeable membrane delineating it. [...]phenomenologically speaking, for enactivism, life is creative by definition. [...]the individual cognitive processes presuppose initial collectivity which, in turn, emerges as the characteristic of metabolism.