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  • Cognitive Science
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Phenomenology

Background:

  • The mind-body problem is reframed as the
  • body-body problem
  • : the lived subject body versus the physiological object body.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore circularity as a framework for understanding the relationship between lived experience and organism-environment interactions.
  • To connect enactive approaches with ecological psychology using the concept of circularity.
  • To propose a solution to the body-body problem through embodied experience.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of circularity in three forms: circular structure of embodiment, circular causality, and circularity of process and structure.
  • Examining homeostatic and sensorimotor cycles in brain-body and brain-body-environment interactions.
  • Analyzing the interdependence of organism sense-making dispositions and environmental affordances.

Main Results:

  • Circularity manifests in homeostatic and sensorimotor cycles, highlighting brain-body and body-environment interdependence.
  • Circular causality describes relations within organisms and organism-environment systems.
  • Subjective experience, as sense-making, drives neurophysiological changes and structural modifications.

Conclusions:

  • Embodied experience integrates brain-body and body-environment interactions.
  • This integration exerts a top-down influence on physiological processes.
  • Circularity offers a novel approach to resolving the body-body problem.