"Brainets" Shaping The Embodied Activities
Roberto Horácio de Sá Pereira, Sérgio Farias de Souza Filho, Victor Machado Barcellos
Qeios April 5, 2023 DOI: 10.32388/al52vq (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that enactivism reverses the conventional order of things: rather than embodied sensorimotor actions shaping and configuring brain patterns, "brainets"—synchronizations of neural activities between different brains—configure or shape a physical and biological body ("Körper") as a living body ("Leib"). |
Abstract
This paper explores the crucial connection between the brain and other organs of the body and the concept of embodied sensorimotor contingencies. Our contention is this: enactivism in all its forms reverses the conventional order of things. It is not the embodied sensorimotor actions that shape and configure brain patterns, but rather the "brainets" (synchronizations of neural activities between different brains) that configure or shape a physical and biological body ("Körper") as a living body ("Leib").