From Representation to Enactment: The ABC Framework of the Translating Mind
arXiv Preprint Archive November 20, 2025 Michael Carl, Takanori Mizowaki, Aishvarya Raj et al.
Building on the Extended Mind (EM) theory and radical enactivism, this article suggests an alternative to representation-based models of the mind. We lay out a novel ABC framework of the translating mind, in which translation is not the manipulation of static interlingual correspondences but an enacted activity, dynamically integrating affective, behavioral, and cognitive (ABC) processes....