Enactivistic Tools | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Enactivistic Tools | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

The first definition of enaction was “learning by doing”. Not learned by instructions, but through a history of engagements that lead to the acquisition of skills. Social cognition is the generation of meaning and its transformation through interacting individuals. The idea that the reality we have in common, and in which we find ourselves, is neither a world that exists independently from us, nor a socially shared way of representing such a pre-given world, but a world itself brought forth by ways of communicating and our joint action.. The world we inhabit is manufactured of “meaning” rather than information. In the enactive view, perception is not conceived as the transmission of information but more as an exploration of the world by various means. The whole universe of science is built upon the world as directly experienced and if we want to subject science itself to rigorous scrutiny and arrive at a precise assessment of its meaning and scope, we must begin by reawakening the basic experience of the world of which science is the second-order expression. It is this probing activity, especially where it is not accidental but deliberate, that characterizes enaction, and invokes affect, that is , the motivation and planning that lead to doing and fashioning the probing, both observing and modifying the environment, so that perceptions and nature condition one another through generating on another. Enaction is the idea that organisms create their own experience through their actions. Organisms are not passive receivers of input from the environment, but are actors in the environment such that what they experience is shaped by how they act. They enact a world.