This book investigates the foundational question of how sensorimotor agency and meaning emerge from the biological processes of living organisms. The authors, Xabier E. Barandiaran, Thomas Buhrmann, and Ezequiel Di Paolo, utilize the enactive approach to mind to challenge traditional representational theories of cognition. They present a naturalistic framework that bridges the gap between biological autonomy and the active perception of an environment.

Experts in the field of cognitive science recognize this work as a significant contribution to the enactive paradigm. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which requires a strong background in philosophy or theoretical biology to fully grasp the proposed arguments.