gesturalbeing
Gesturalbeing is a theoretical construct in philosophy of mind and cognitive science that denotes an entity whose cognition is fundamentally tied to bodily gestures and movement. In this view, meaning, intention, and action arise not solely from internal representations but from ongoing sensorimotor coupling with the world, with gestures serving as constitutive elements of the cognitive process rather than as mere outputs.
It aligns with embodied cognition, enactivism, and distributed cognition, which treat perception and thought as resourceful
Applications range from human communication, where co-speech gestures participate in meaning construction, to studies of animal
Because gesturalbeing is a theoretical construct rather than a widely adopted policy or diagnostic category, critiques
Etymology and usage: derived from gestus, the Latin for gesture, gesturalbeing has appeared in discussions of