enaction
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "a wide spectrum of tics and compulsive movements […] which were enactions of sudden urges."
- "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."
- "An appreciation of the power of enaction in our understandings of the mind will throw into relief the question of motivations and goals."
- "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."
- "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)"
- "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."