body
sensing · acting · failing
environment
tools · colleagues · friction
culture
language · practice · tradition
world
the human
is the agent
Merleau-Ponty · 1945
meaning isn't computed. it's inhabited.
the body is our primary site of knowing —
not the brain processing inputs, but the body
thrown into a world, making sense through action.
Varela · Thompson · Rosch · 1991
cognition is enacted, not represented
your ontological framework isn't a map
stored in a head. it emerges continuously
from your engagement with the environment.
Geertz · 1973
“man is an animal suspended
in webs of significance
he himself has spun”
cultures are meaning-making, scaled.
the web is built the same way the model is —
through bodies, acting, over time.
the ontological framework isn't in the head.
it is the accumulated history of these encounters.
Merleau-Ponty · Varela · Geertz · Dewey