Despite some of my concerns about how the PP framework can be interpreted and its relation to the CI/ENC framework, I think that Fabry’s account of the enculturation of reading using a hybrid of CI and EPP is really compelling. This leads me to think that an EPP account might by workable for other cases, such as mathematical cognition. Having said this, the division of labour between PP and evolutionary accounts of the origin of NPP and ICS must be in place. The role of scaffolded learning and neural redeployment should not be replaced by error minimization processes. The ‘isolationist’ reading of PP should be resisted, and a more situated cognition friendly approach embraced. PP is a sub-personal account of neural processes that fits within a larger account of the brain–body–niche nexus. If one embraces CI/ENC then there’s more to the mind than What? Now.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Thomas Metzinger and Jenny Windt for comments and to Regina Fabry for her excellent commentary.