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Predictive engagement and motor intentionality
Bizzari, Valeria
Hipolito, Inês
2016-12
Abstract
In this paper we aim to show that motor intentionality, as the underlying ground for social cognition, can be explained through the predictive engagement model. Sensorimotor processes seem to play central roles in social interaction, cognition and language. We question the phenomenological role of the body in social cognition and further investigate a causal neural explanation. We will adopt a different perspective by linking the role of the body and intercorporeality with recent findings in philosophy of neuroscience under the predictive brain hypothesis. In fact, the living body seems to entertain a dialogical and enactive relationship with the surrounding context, as well as with neural circuits actively responding to external stimuli. The body is thus configured as a living organism, and not as a mere biological substratum, offering to phenomenology and empirical sciences further confirmations of the possibility-and need-for a cooperation.
Series
Esercizi Filosofici
vol. 11, n. 2 (2016)
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Valeria Bizzari, Inês Hipolito, "Predictive engagement and motor intentionality", in: Esercizi Filosofici, vol. 11, n. 2 (2016), pp. 86-98
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