Assembling the Brain: Disseminated and Confused Cognition at the Threshold of Ecological Relationality
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https://doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v10i.49359Palabras clave:
Cognición, Posthumanismo crítico, Ecologías, Nuevos Materialismos, RelacionalidadResumen
Las perspectivas filosóficas posthumanistas así como las nuevomaterialistas nos permiten repensar los procesos cognitivos más allá de las lógicas localizacionistas. El localizacionismo se aproxima a la cognición como un proceso singularmente localizado: ahora en las neuronas, ahora en el cerebro, ahora en el cuerpo de un organismo que sostiene un racionalismo logocéntrico, individualizado y autónimo. Sin embargo, la propuesta del cerebro-ensamblaje, así como la concepción más amplia de la cognición-ensamblajada, nos incita a repensar más allá los procesos cognitivos. La cognición se convierte en una conjunción de procesos en extensión y proliferación, apenas localizables, mientras devienen en un plano relacional e intensivo. No obstante, ¿hasta qué punto es posible presuponer esta estructura ecológica de la cognición? ¿Cuál es el umbral en tal proceso en aquello que respecta a la relacionalidad como tal, así como a las alteridades no necesariamente dotadas de sistema nervioso, o -más aún- las no biológicas?
En este artículo articulamos una propuesta para repensar la mente encarnada como diseminada y confusa a través de conceptualizaciones novedosas que arrojan luz para entender la cognición como un proceso ensablajado en lo relacional. Nuestra propuesta aborda los procesos mentales como encuentros e intercambios materiales de caracter incesante e intensivo. Desde un lugar recursivo, cerrado y neuro-centrado —como propiedad local que está confinada en un órgano-organismo, o bien que se prolonga concéntricamente desde él— la cognición desborda lo encarnado, así como el dualismo que establece una serpación entre lo encarnado y aquello presupuesto como externo. Al contrario, la cognición ensabljada alteridades, erigiéndose como un proceso plural y en devenir ecológico que traspasa lo individual, asó como lo biológicamente individualizado.
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