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5.1 Introduction: Cartesian Anxieties 5.1 Introduction: Cartesian Anxieties
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5.2 Emotion in Enaction: Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, and Sense-Making 5.2 Emotion in Enaction: Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, and Sense-Making
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5.3 Enaction in Emotion: Enacting Appraisals 5.3 Enaction in Emotion: Enacting Appraisals
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5.4 Looking Ahead: Coexisting Bodily Appraisals, Irrationality, and Neurochemical harmonization 5.4 Looking Ahead: Coexisting Bodily Appraisals, Irrationality, and Neurochemical harmonization
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Notes Notes
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5 Enaction, Sense-Making, and Emotion
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Published:November 2010
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Abstract
This chapter adopts two converging strategies in order to elaborate on the problematic view contending that emotion science tends to disregard the meaning-generating role of the body and to attribute it only to separate abstract cognitive-evaluative processes. First, the idea of whole-organism-generated meaning is illustrated by drawing on the notion of sense-making in the autopoietic and adaptive system. The notion of sense-making maintained by Weber and Varela in 2002 and Di Paolo in 2005 is interpreted here as a bodily cognitive-emotional form of understanding that belongs to all living systems, and which is present in a primordial form even in the simplest ones. Arguments positing that modern emotion science overintellectualizes our capacity to evaluate and understand are then presented, showing that this overintellectualization goes hand in hand with the rejection of the idea that the nonneural body is a vehicle of meaning.
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