Enactive consciousness, intertextuality, and musical free improvisation:deconstructing mythologies and finding connections
Oxford University Press eBooks July 28, 2011 DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553792.003.0037 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Citations | 25 |
| Key points | Argues that consciousness is an enactive phenomenon and that knowledge depends on embodiment — the body, language, and social history. Proposes that a speculative musical/sonic interpretation of intertextuality offers an unexpected and productive connection to this enactive account of consciousness. |
Abstract
This chapter explores the connection between the idea of consciousness understood as enactive cognition and the perceptions within philosophy that ‘knowledge depends on being in a world that is inseparable from our bodies, our language, and our social history — in short, from our embodiment’. Various avatars of these three factors of our knowledge — body, language, and history — reappear over and over in what follows. However, what has become the main theme of the chapter arrived unexpectedly in the connection that emerged between an understanding of consciousness as an enactive phenomenon, and a speculative and specifically musical/sonic interpretation of the idea of intertextuality.