#wimhof and his acolytes are thugs - mechanistic prescriptions dangerously leveraged around hyperventilation masquerading as revelatory wellness.

interesting yes - I concur that it is definitely not an insuperable challenge to enactivism. enactivism does
not rely on singular impermeable closure - autopoesis and autonomy are not at stake because both are relational and contingent notions.

or just another gesture towards multipolar spheres of influence and the undoing of a rule based UN mediated global order

‘Folding in’ here was intended to suggest precisely what you have articulated - worlding processes are inscribed, embodied and recursively circulated - I would contest that they do have the potential to become rather opaque and difficult to foreground or ascribe a particular causal power - machinic

my use of contingency was intended to als imply constraints

well this is a remarkable synthesis - thanks for sharing

what we might call casual eugenics

i feel it

The world is always folding in - we come to embody our narratives, largely derived through recursive engagements with indeterminate mostly transparent, variegated and multitudinous events.

Far from it. Bodily priors are an already ongoing matrix of singular perceptions - beyond compute or average. Context or alternatively stated, contingencies are everything - they are the high dimensional field, the architecture or scaffold that mostly evades conventional modes of inquiry.

although enactivist and an 4E elaboration goes some way towards remedying this symbolic use it does feel that many of the key thinkers in that space are pursuing more processual and event based schema which does away with binaries altogether

as a histopathologist once said to me - ‘ it’s all tubes’ - all the way down…

But freedom of the individual may only be a stage; the domestication of time and space may entail the total subjugation of every particle of the supraindividual organism.”

I am also reminded here of the morphological computations - that perceptions of the body do the work of generating a workable schema sans concept

to reference the paper ‘and interaction with other perceptual processes’.

This thesis would seem to sit comfortably with radically embodied cognition (hutto) which is strongly non-representational and light on conceptual pre-sets. Also inherently more congruent with ecological psychology.

how much thinner can we stretch cognition

The archival political rhetoric revealing a hubris and parochialism in distinguishable from current babble. Essentially for understanding #gaza #waronterror @lrb.co.uk