Significance and its role in the historical constitution and transformation of social reality. A conceptual approach from enactive cognition

The article examines how significance—the meaningfulness that things have for us—plays a foundational role in the historical formation and change of social reality. Drawing on enactive cognitive science, which views cognition as emerging from an organism's active engagement with its environment, the authors propose a conceptual framework in which significance is not merely subjective but actively shapes social structures and historical processes. The argument suggests that social reality is continuously constituted and transformed through the dynamic interplay between embodied agents and their meaningful environments, offering a new perspective on the relationship between cognition, history, and society.

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Significance and its role in the historical constitution and transformation of social reality. A conceptual approach from enactive cognition