enaction
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enaction (usually uncountable, plural enactions)
- The process of enacting something.
- 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
- a wide spectrum of tics and compulsive movements […] which were enactions of sudden urges.
- 1991, Takuya Katayama, Support for the Software Process, page 151:
- Two important threads of this work are to design a representation formalism for describing software process models and to develop new mechanisms to support the enaction of instantiated software process models.
- (philosophy, cognitive science, computer science) The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of actions that produce reactions.
- 2005, Ralph D. Ellis, Natika Newton, Consciousness & Emotion: Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception:
- An appreciation of the power of enaction in our understandings of the mind will throw into relief the question of motivations and goals.
- 2017, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal, page 76:
- The processes that underlie the organization and honing of these skills operate over a wide range of timescales, which include the enaction of a particular perceptual act at one end and the lifetime development of perception-action capabilities at the other.
- 2018, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Elena Clare Cuffari, Hanne De Jaegher, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language:
- The first mention of enaction as a history of couplings that bring forth a world referred to the activity of "sensorimotor networks". (Varela et al. 1991)
- 2019, Mariusz Kozak, Enacting Musical Time: The Bodily Experience of New Music, page 54:
- Third, drawing on enaction and embodiment gives us the means for considering actions taken in response to musical sounds as sufficient for cognition, and thus constitutive of listeners' musical understanding.