Razón de estar: cognición situada y cerebro partícipe

Reason of being-there ( estar ): situated cognition and partaking brain. The fundamental concepts of situated and embodied cognition are explicit in the grammar and meaning of the Spanish verb estar (being in a temporary state or location as a distinct interpretation of the verb to be). Such meaning has been analyzed by phenomenological philosophers and conveyed by existential poets, particularly by several expatriates of the Spanish Civil War. Similar tenets were independently developed by holistic biology and psychology specialists, and in recent times their neurobiological foundations have been increasingly revealed and indicate that the brain is a crucial participant of the situated mind. Such transdisciplinary convergence constitutes a natural philosophy of estar understood as the nature of the active connection between cognitive creatures and their physical, social, and symbolic environment. Key words. Estar, being-there, situated cognition, phenomenology, Dasein, environmental psychology, time and space consciousness, present time, presence, situated brain, Jorge Guillen.