The cognitive archeology of sociocultural lifeforms
Avel Guénin--Carlut, Ben White, Lorena Sganzerla
March 17, 2023 preprint DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qxszh (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Proposes an operational definition of Wittgensteinian "forms of life" as a self-productive collection of constraints over collective behavior, and argues that humans integrate and enact these constraints through Active Inference of shared "regimes of attention," experienced as embedded normativity within a shared sociocultural niche. The authors further contend that sociocultural lifeforms "encode information" in the material niche and discuss how cognitive archaeologists may recover it. |
Abstract
We draw from the recent enactivist literature to articulate an operational definition of Wittgensteinien forms of life as a self-productive collection of constraints over collective behavior. We propose that humans integrate and enact those account through the Active Inference of shared “regimes of attentions”, which are experienced as embedded normativity within direct engagement with a shared sociocultural niche. Given those elements, we discuss how sociocultural lifeforms “encode information” in the material niche, and discuss how this information may be recovered by cognitive archeologists.
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