4E Cognition (+2)

An interdisciplinary approach to cognitive science that assumes cognition is inherently shaped and structured by dynamic interactions between the brain and body.

Embodied	The brain and body are an integrated, dynamical, adaptive, self-organizing system. The way we physically move through space changes how we think and how we solve problems. Our concepts and ideas are inseparable from our gestures, feelings, and sensations. Our language is full of movement metaphors.
Embedded	Cognition is not an isolated event; it displays layers of co-determination with physical, social, and cultural aspects of the world.
Enacted	Everything you do impacts the world around you and creates new realities that in turn constrain or open up possibilities for you.
Extended	We perceive our tools as an extension of our bodies.
⁺Emotional	Cognition is not cold calculation, it always has an affective, motivational, emotional aspect. All cognition is about caring, or not caring, about taking a risk, which has affective consequences.
⁺Exaptive	We can take the same machinery we use for moving around physical space and exapt it to the mental space.