Organisms act on the world through bodily actions to seek a meaningful environment conducive to survival.Therefore,cognition is a kind of sense-making.Sense-making is not only cognitive,but also emotional and affective,which are unified in the physical activity of organism'sense-making.The body creates the emotional experience.Emotion and affection are a kind of physical understanding of situational stimulation,as well as a tendency for action.Emotions and affections are not"pure mental events"that take place only in the brain,but extend beyond the head and skin to environmental resources and estab-lish a coupled whole with the external world.The enactivist theory of emotion provides a new perspective for us to reconsider the the essence of emotion.
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