Two challenges to the embodied version of the autopoietic theory
Clavel Vázquez,María Jimena
Clavel Vázquez,María Jimena
Abstract
“In Are living beings extended autopoietic systems? An embodied reply”, Villalobos and Razeto-Barry offer an articulation of the embodied aspect of the autopoietic theory. Their aim is to block the extended interpretation of this theory. For them, living beings are, simply put, autopoietic bodies. In this commentary, I advance two concerns regarding the alleged cases of extended living beings. On the one hand, I argue that their proposal fails to account for the intuitive difference between these cases and living beings that are embedded in the environment. On the other hand, I argue that, from the perspective offered by the authors, there also seems to be a problem in the way the boundaries of a system are delineated.
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Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2019.
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2020-02-01
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Autopoiesis, enactivism, extended autopoietic systems, extended cognition
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Clavel Vázquez, M J 2020, 'Two challenges to the embodied version of the autopoietic theory', Adaptive Behavior, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-42. https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712319839641