What does it mean to make sense?

Sense-making is the enactive term for cognition. I explore how flesh-and-blood humans, in collaboration with environments and with each other, make sense of things like utterances, gestures, interactions, objects, events, stories, and time.

The key idea I’ve codeveloped here is that, because of the ways our everyday making sense is intertwined with language, language is actually incorporated into all dimensions of human embodiment. We are continually in process, or becoming; we are linguistic bodies. An open question, and one that occupies a lot of my thinking these days, is whether non-human agents whose sense-making involves human language are closer to us ontologically than philosophers have often thought.

I’m also interested in the normativity of sense-making, specifically the question of what it means to make better sense and how communities might do that.