The Emergence of Ur-Intentionality: An Ecological Proposal
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Intentionality Ecological psychology Content
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2024-04-25Referencia bibliográfica
Heras Escribano, M. & Martínez Moreno, D. Philosophies 2024, 9, 54. [https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9030054]
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CNS2022-136195 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 y por la Unión Europea Next GenerationEU/ PRTR; Ramón y Cajal Postdoctoral Fellowship (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain); project “De la experiencia a los conceptos: Una reformulación del problema de Molyneux a través de la sustitución sensorial ecológica (ECOCONCEPT)”; Ayudas a Proyectos de Investigación Científica 2022 Program of the BBVA Foundation (Spain); (“Toward an Ecological Approach to the Natural Origins of Content: From Direct Perception to Social Norms (ECOCONTENT)”)Resumen
Radical enactivism supports radical embodied cognition (REC), which is the idea that basic
or fundamental cognition (perception and action) does not need to be understood in representational,
contentful terms. REC departs from the idea that the mind can be naturalized through biological
functions, but rejects the idea that mental content, which is understood as having a representational
nature, can be naturalized. For REC, the natural origins of content (or NOC) is a program based on the
following hypothesis: first, we depart from basic cognitive processes that are target-based and guided
by an Ur-intentionality or directedness toward the world, and then sociality enters in the picture
when language appears into the scene, allowing for establishing full-blown semantic content in
which that content is about worldly states of affairs. Here, we are going to focus on the phenomenon
of directedness since there are blind spots in this picture: as many authors claim, REC takes Urintentionality
as the starting point, but there is simply no explanation to date of how this directedness
or Ur-intentionality is established. Therefore, how could we account for Ur-intentionality? How
does this kind of intentionality emerge? We believe that we can answer this question if we invoke
the best scientific evidence from ecological perceptual learning especially in regard to the role of the
environment and the information for perceiving affordances in our learning processes. This allows
us to offer an answer to the question of how the most basic form of cognition (Ur-intentionality or
directedness) emerges in nature.