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  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Biosemiotics

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  • Autopoietic Enactivism faces challenges in reconciling individual autonomy with social heteronomy.
  • A dualism persists between the self-governance of agents and the influence of social facts.

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  • To present a Code Biology-informed alternative to Autopoietic Enactivism.
  • To demonstrate how to avoid the autonomy-heteronomy dualism in sense-making.
  • To explore the role of codified relations in integrating individual and social levels of organization.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical framework development based on Code Biology principles.
  • Analytical approach to agent integrity and operational closure.
  • Case study analysis of prosthetic limb integration in amputees.

Main Results:

  • Code Biology principles can bridge biological and non-biological organization, transcending self-non-self boundaries.
  • Codified relations are central, connecting agent interactions and social norms without reducing to operational closure.
  • Prosthetic integration requires experienced bodily wholeness, involving adaptation to the device and internalization of social norms.

Conclusions:

  • A Code Biology perspective offers a unified account of sense-making, integrating autonomy and heteronomy.
  • External norms (heteronomy) constitutively alter the internal integrity of autonomous agents.
  • Living systems actualize codified relations, embodying both autonomous and heteronomous characteristics.