Abstract

This chapter examines the foundational claims of enactive cognition in its seminal work, The Embodied Mind. This analysis underscores the original proposals of enactive cognition and shows how many variants of enactivism today diverge from them. I name the divergent views weak enactivism and describe radical enactivism as an exemplary case of this form of enactive cognition. By contrast, I depict the enactive approach as a strong enactivism. This is the only enactivist branch that maintains the original goals of The Embodied Mind nowadays. I finally show how the concepts of biological autonomy and sense-making and the focus of the enactive approach on the developmental aspects of life and cognition are revolutionizing cognitive science and setting the new basis of a world-involving cognition view.