This book investigates the foundational mechanisms of sensorimotor agency by proposing a non-representational framework for understanding how living systems generate meaning through action and perception. The authors, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Thomas Buhrmann, and Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, utilize the enactive approach to life and mind to bridge the gap between biological autonomy and cognitive processes. By synthesizing theoretical biology with dynamical systems theory, they construct a naturalistic account that explains how agents actively constitute their own sensorimotor worlds without relying on internal mental representations.

Experts in the field of cognitive science and philosophy of mind recognize this work as a rigorous contribution to the enactive paradigm. Readers frequently note the high level of academic density and the technical nature of the arguments presented throughout the chapters.