Significance and its role in the historical constitution and transformation of social reality. A conceptual approach from enactive cognition
Vivían Romeu
Qeios October 13, 2023 preprint DOI: 10.32388/bigna8 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that subjective and intersubjective significance co-determines social action and interaction, and that it is a fundamental factor in the historical constitution and transformation of social reality, which is understood as an unfinished, constantly reconfigured process. Proposes significance be understood as the unpredictable, chance convergence of cognitive circumstances in action. |
Abstract
Framed in the relevance and scope of the enactivism approach about cognition for social sciences, this theoretical essay intends to develop an hypothesis about the co-determination role of significance in social action and interaction based on the enactivism approach of cognition processes. We are interested in arguing the central role of subjective and intersubjective significance in the historical constitution of social reality, understanding this constitution as a constant dynamic of meaning production in actions. From this perspective we point out to understand significance as part of the individual and social life experience of the cognitive agent’s perceptual, cognitive operation; and besides as a mediation instance between subject and world where naturally lives transformation possibilities. Based on the understanding that social reality is a process that we can define as an unfinished and constant social configuration and reconfiguration, we proposed cognitive production significance as a fundamental factor in the historical constitution and social transformation of the reality regarding this significance can be defined as the imprevisible and chanced convergence of cognitive circumstances in action.