An Overview of Knowledge Integration and the Self-Organization of Life
- 1 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- 2 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras, PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
- 3 Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Abstract
This article aims to discuss the integration of knowledge through cognitive functions that allow human organisms to generate meaning for their self-organization when interacting with the environment. The challenge for organisms entails the essential requirement of seeking energy for their ongoing equilibrium, using their sensory-perceptive apparatus to construct a way of life that encompasses both the experienced and, continually, the imagined and fantasized worlds. Within this integration of organism and environment, the body assumes a central role, adopting an extension and overall orientation aligned with enactivism-based models of cognition. The thematic model represented here integrates diverse theoretical-empirical results under the same ontological principles.
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