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Shaun Gallagher

thesis holds that mind is continuous with life1. disrupted organism–environment coupling at any level (cellular, autonomic, behavioral, social, residential) propagates into disrupted sense-making at every higher level2.

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thesis holds that mind is continuous with life

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“thesis holds that mind is continuous with life”
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disrupted organism–environment coupling at any level (cellular, autonomic, behavioral, social, residential) propagates into disrupted sense-making at every higher level

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“disrupted organism–environment coupling at any level (cellular, autonomic, behavioral, social, residential) propagates into disrupted sense-making at every higher level”
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Shaun Gallagher consolidates the embodied/enactive position for cognitive science

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“Shaun Gallagher, *How the Body Shapes the Mind* (2005) and *Enactivist Interventions* (2017) consolidate the embodied/enactive position for cognitive science”
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the same self-organizing, sense-making processes that characterize a single cell scale up to characterize cognition

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“the same self-organizing, sense-making processes that characterize a single cell scale up to characterize cognition”
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These are things people say about Shaun Gallagher that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.

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"the paper's symptoms (interoceptive deficit, alexithymia, anhedonia, identity dissolution) become coherent under this account as cascading failures of coupling"
Asserted by Shaun Gallagher · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
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