TITLE:
An Overview of Knowledge Integration and the Self-Organization of Life
AUTHORS:
Hugo Mari, Milton do Nascimento, José Carlos Cavalheiro
KEYWORDS:
Cognition, Integration, Self-Organization, Perceptual Systems, Energy, Complex Adaptive System, Enactivism, Production of Meaning, Corporeal
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.15 No.4,
April
9,
2024
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.