Katherine Hayles: por una “cognición” expandida que atraviese humanos, no humanos y medios computacionales

“Starting from this foundation, I argued that all biological lifeforms have some cognitive capacities, even those without brains, such as nematode worms and plants. To reposition the terms meaning and interpretation, I drew from biosemiotics, a field that studies sign creation, interpretation, and dissemination among nonhuman species. For biosemioticians such as Jesper Hoffmeyer, Terrence Deacon, and Wendy Wheeler, meaning-making practices are essentially behaviors evoked by environmental changes, such as a deciduous tree losing its leaves in winter. In this minimal sense, all lifeforms perform interpretations on information coming from their environments (for multicellular organisms, also coming from their internal sensory systems), which are meaningful to them within their world horizons (or Umwelten, as Jacob von Uexküll puts it).

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