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Almost two decades since the publication of The Embodied Mind (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch 1991), the term enactive has moved out of relative obscurity to become a fashionable banner in many regions of cognitive science. It has found its way into diverse areas, from education and humancomputer interaction, to autonomous robotics and consciousness studies. On the surface, this acceptance indicates the success of the ideas articulated by Varela and his colleagues, and their view of the mind with its emphasis on the role of embodied experience, autonomy and the relation of codetermination between cognitive agents and their world. Theirs was not only an achieved synthesis of existing criticisms to a predominantly computationalist paradigm, but also the articulation of a set of postulates to move these ideas forward. Indeed, the increasing use of enactive terminology serves as an indication that the time is …