Enactivism, as a radical framework for understanding cognition based on the flexible dynamics of living systems, developed in the late 20th century in response to problems faced by the prevailing model of cognitivism. It aimed to be all-encompassing, accounting for the different ontological levels that cognition is instantiated on, but despite its ambition enactivism did not achieve the...
Synaesthesia, in which particular perceptual or cognitive stimuli trigger anomalous secondary sensations, has proven to be remarkably difficult to explain. The way it complicates linkages between perception and action is often taken to present a particularly interesting challenge for embodied accounts of cognition. Taking up Merleau-Ponty’s startling claim that “synaesthetic perception is the...