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From Participatory Sense-Making
to LanguageThere and Back Again
Elena Clare CuffariEzequiel Di PaoloHanne De Jaegher
IAS-Center for Life, Mind and Society
UPV/EHUUniversity of the Basque
Country
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Overview• How and what the enactive emphasis on
adaptivity, agency, meaning, experience, and interaction contributes to new sciences of languaging:
• A philosophical framework: languaging as a manner of living, i.e. adaptive social sense-making
• Two models improving upon the Maturanian view of languaging
• Linguistic bodies, boundaries, and meaning• Consequences for ethics and for
understanding experience
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• “We operate in language as our manner of being as we live in the present, in the flow of our interactions, in our domains of structural coupling” (2002, 27)
• “…notions of communication and symbolization are second to actually existing in language” (ibid)
• “…as the circular processes of the brain become coupled to the linear flow of ‘languaging’, that brain becomes a ‘languaging’ brain” (1995)
• Coordinations of coordinations
Maturana (the good stuff)
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“Language as a biological phenomenon…• Takes place in the relational domain as a manner of
living• and not in the brain as a phenomenon of the
operational and structural dynamics of the nervous system” (1995)
• Non-intersecting domains: metabolic-physiological & relational
Maturana (the not so good stuff)
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• Enaction starts with autonomousautonomous cognizingcognizing (sense-making) agentagent, “the normative engagement of a system with its world” (Di Paolo 2009)
• Cognition is sense-making in interaction sense-making in interaction (Di Paolo 2009)
• Agency seen in the asymmetrical modulation of the coupling between the autonomous entity and its environment.
• This is a post-Maturanian view:– Adaptivity– Agency– Experience– Meaning– Time : homeostasis and sense-making are both dynamic
temporal phenomena
Enaction
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Participatory sense-making (De Jaegher and Di Paolo 2007)
• The sense-making of two or more agents is mutually modulated as they engage in an interactive encounter.
• The dynamics of social interaction form an autonomous self-sustaining identity (for a time) in the common space of coordinated and uncoordinated relational moves.
• There is a double influencedouble influence between interaction autonomy and individual autonomies of agents.
• Agents come to participate in each other’s sense-making; this also generates a deep basic tension.
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Adaptivity and PSM in conversation
• What is at stake for biological-existential selves?
• What does it mean for a conversation to threaten one’s homeostasis?
• What does it mean to improve the conditions of one's self-production when the self is socio-linguistically mediated?
• What kind of account of language and embodiment do we need to answer such questions?
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Approaching language: two models
• What is the What is the logical structurelogical structure of of languaging as a manner of living? languaging as a manner of living? – Similar to Wittgenstein’s slabs– But with special resources from the theory of
PSM– Dialectical structure of negotiating tensions
• What is the What is the observable and lived observable and lived experienceexperience of languaging as a manner of of languaging as a manner of living?living?– Circular relations of coping, incorporating, and
creating: Wheel of languaging– Applies and supports the definition of
languaging from the first model
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Enactive languaging Languaging is a special
style of social agency
a double regulation of self and interaction that integrates the tensions inherent in PSM - dialogical organization and the creative, exploratory use of codified, in-common coordinating moves
Sense-making at the level of emergent horizons of normativity and significance
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Wheel of languaging
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Linguistic bodies• Individual beings that incorporate
sensitivities and powers pertaining to living in enlanguaged environments
• Not discursive bodies, not ephemeral, but perhaps excessive (potentialities, tuning to the virtual)
• Language is not a faculty or an instinct.• All bodies are not the same.• Pre-given sameness does not secure
meaning.
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Linguistic borders
• Expanding circle within PSM• Questions for further research will include:– Are we ever outside of languaging?– Border collies, great apes, babies (“no pre-
linguistic infant” – Raçzaszek-Leonardi et al 2013)– How can we isolate and examine the contribution
of linguistic behavior in dynamic and distributed social interaction, and the sense made there?
• Experiential consequences of coordinations raises another question of boundaries: between self and other
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Ethics of co-coordination
• Languaging involves coordinating others and being coordinated by them.
• We do not just do languaging with others, we do it to them, and have it done to us.
• And we do it to ourselves – diets, plans, judgments.
• Call for mindfulness and cultivated practices of listening to and speaking out of experience to improve our shared living in languaging.
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Summary• What can enaction bring to language?–Meaning– Agency– Sensitive and powerful bodies, unique yet
intelligible– Normative and referential horizons of co-enacted
lifeworld– Ethical consequences in co-coordinating experience
• These core features of the enactive approach to cognition and social cognition offer a natural framework for investigating languaging as a manner of living.
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Thank You!
Thanks to Thomas Wiben Jensen, Yanna Popova, Jon Stewart and Tom Froese for very helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper!!