Bacterial chemotaxis is a biased movement of bacteria toward the beneficial chemical
gradient or away from a toxic chemical gradient. This movement is achieved by sensing a …

There is a growing body of evidence for the effects of vitamin D on intestinal host-
microbiome interactions related to gut dysbiosis and bowel inflammation. This brief review …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

Embodied approaches to cognition hold that the body is crucial for cognition. Yet despite
many decades of research, 1 what this “embodiment thesis” 2 (Wilson and Foglia, 2011) …

Meant to overcome the opposing pulls of idealism and empiricism, this statement contains in
its formulation—if not in its meaning—a pregnant mystery. In the context of this phrase, we …

Biological regulation is what allows an organism to handle the effects of a perturbation,
modulating its own constitutive dynamics in response to particular changes in internal and …

This paper concerns biopsychism, the position that feeling is a vital activity of all organisms
or living beings. It evaluates biopsychism specifically from the perspective of the enactive …

This review motivates and synthesizes research efforts in neuroscience-inspired artificial
intelligence and biomimetic computing in terms of mortal computation. Specifically, we …

This article examines in some technical detail the application of Maturana and Varela's
biology of cognition to a simple concrete model: a glider in the game of Life cellular …

Living agency is subject to a normative dimension (good-bad, adaptive-maladaptive) that is
absent from other types of interaction. We review current and historical attempts to naturalize …