Distinctions as embodied experiences

Distinctions as embodied experiences Article

Parra, CM, Yano, M. (2004). Distinctions as embodied experiences . 151 75-96. 10.1515/semi.2004.074

Why and how individuals experience (or notice) something1 is a relevant issue from many perspectives (psychological, philosophical, biological, etc). Even from an economic perspective this phenomenon (i.e. the emergence of distinctions) is at the core of decision-making processes in consumers, producers, and agents in general. This paper uses an evolutionary perspective in order to oer a plausible explanation - a model - for how distinctions emerge, showing that the phenomenon in question can be a selfrecursive second order cybernetic case of approaches bridging the gap between phenomenology and modern cognition, namely neurophenomenology, and in line with those linking semiotic philosophy to cybernetics, namely cybersemiotics. Particularly, the model presented here could be classified under the realm of evolutionary neurophenomenological cybersemiotics, which refers to the scrutiny of human experience through modern cognition and Darwinian evolution using a cybernetic understanding of Peircean semiotics. Copyright © 2004 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG.