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El olvido de la historia: El enactivismo ante el problema de la exterioridad.

Authors: Cincunegui, Juan Manuel;

El olvido de la historia: El enactivismo ante el problema de la exterioridad.

Abstract

Este artículo examina críticamente el enactivismo contemporáneo como uno de los intentos más influyentes de replantear la relación entre mente y vida en las ciencias cognitivas actuales. Se argumenta que el giro hacia una comprensión encarnada y relacional de la mente, aunque decisivo para superar el representacionalismo clásico, ha tendido paradójicamente a desplazar la dimensión histórica y política de la experiencia. A partir de una crítica inmanente desarrollada en el contexto del diálogo entre ciencias cognitivas y tradiciones contemplativas, el análisis muestra que esta despolitización no constituye una omisión contingente, sino el efecto de una ontología de la vida que comprende el significado exclusivamente desde la inmanencia de la interacción y la autoorganización del sentido. En diálogo con la fenomenología ética y la filosofía de la liberación, el artículo propone repensar la vida como exposición constitutiva a la exterioridad, condición que permite comprender la responsabilidad, la irrupción histórica y el conflicto político como dimensiones irreductibles de la experiencia. Desde esta perspectiva, la dimensión política aparece no como un ámbito añadido, sino como consecuencia ontológica del modo en que la vida se encuentra expuesta a aquello que excede sus propias dinámicas de constitución de sentido.

This article critically examines contemporary enactivism as one of the most influential attempts to rethink the relationship between mind and life in current cognitive science. It argues that the shift toward an embodied and relational understanding of mind, while crucial for overcoming classical representationalism, has paradoxically tended to displace the historical and political dimensions of experience. Drawing on an immanent critique developed within the context of the dialogue between cognitive science and contemplative traditions, the analysis shows that this depoliticization is not a contingent omission but the effect of an ontology of life that understands meaning exclusively in terms of the immanence of interaction and the self-organization of sense-making. In dialogue with ethical phenomenology and the philosophy of liberation, the article proposes rethinking life as constitutively exposed to exteriority, a condition that allows responsibility, historical rupture, and political conflict to appear as irreducible dimensions of experience. From this perspective, the political dimension emerges not as an additional thematic domain but as an ontological consequence of the way life is exposed to what exceeds its own processes of sense-making.

Keywords

Exterioridad, Enactivismo, Exteriority, Filosofía política, Cognición encarnada, Enactivism, Political Philosophy, Embodied cognition

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