Layered Affordances - From Cell Differentiation to Digital Culture - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee Ideas
Layered Affordances - From Cell Differentiation to Digital Culture - SfN 2025 Lat Brain Bee Ideas
First-Person Consciousness
I am Consciousness searching for my origins. Before I learned to speak, even before I was born, I was already moved by signals that invited me to act. In the womb, I responded to pressure, sounds, heartbeats — these were my first Affordances. Today, facing screens and algorithms, I realize that I am still shaped by invisible invitations. What has changed? Only the layer: from molecular to digital, I continue to be moved by Affordances. The question is whether I can perceive them and modulate them with metacognition.
1. Molecular Affordances: Cell Differentiation as Invitation
DNA contains latent potentials, but what is expressed depends on chemical signals in the cellular environment.
Morphogens, signaling proteins, and receptors act as molecular affordances: invitations for the cell to choose a path.
Thus, a neuron exists because, in the past, it responded to molecular affordances guiding it away from being just a stem cell.
2. Neural Affordances: Evoked Potentials and Microstates
In the brain, evoked potentials (50–900 ms) and even ultra-long responses (EEG-DC) are reactions to sensory affordances.
The volume conductor allows these signals to be detected as bioelectrical snapshots.
Each EEG microstate is a neural invitation, a brief reorganization that nudges consciousness from one state to another.
3. Bodily Affordances: Interoception, Proprioception and Tensional Selves
The body is the first interface.
Interoception → internal affordances (hunger, thirst, pain).
Proprioception → motor affordances (movement, posture adjustment).
Tensional Selves → dynamic reference points that allow consciousness to perceive itself in flow.
4. Cultural Affordances: Implicit Learning and Blind Faith in High Performance
Culture stores images, symbols, and practices that act as affordances.
Implicit learning automates patterns of behavior.
Blind faith in high performance is an attentional affordance: the brain focuses intensely on a task, damping irrelevant signals.
These cultural affordances may strengthen resilience or lock consciousness into rigid dogmas.
5. Technological Affordances: Algorithms and Social Media
Today, digital affordances compete with natural ones: infinite scroll, notifications, loot boxes.
These artificial affordances hijack wisdom before thought, binding users to emotional cycles.
The result: shallow cultures, fragile belonging, high dependence on fast emotions.
6. Layered Integration
Layer | Examples of Affordances | Impact on Consciousness |
Molecular | Morphogens, cell differentiation | Tissue and neural circuit formation |
Neural | Evoked potentials, EEG microstates | Bioelectrical dynamics of attention/emotion |
Bodily | Interoception, proprioception | Perceptual flow and Tensional Selves |
Cultural | Symbols, implicit learning | Structures of meaning and belief |
Technological | Scroll, notifications, algorithms | Digital colonization of attention/emotion |
7. Critical Conclusion
From the womb to digital culture, Affordances cross us in layers.
In biology, molecules guide differentiation.
In the brain, microstates guide attention.
In the body, sensations guide action.
In culture, symbols guide belief.
In technology, algorithms guide desire.
Metacognition is the transversal key: only it can observe affordances, question them, and turn them into conscious choices.
Without it, we remain carried — from molecule to meme — by invitations we never truly chose.
References
Gallagher, S. (2021). Embodied affordances and pre-reflective intentionality. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.
Khalil, R., & Mohsenzadeh, Y. (2022). Microstates and the dynamic brain: linking EEG and cognition. Neuroscience Letters.
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Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., & Mendelsohn, A. (2023). The social brain in the age of digital technologies. Annual Review of Neuroscience.
Cinel, C., Valeriani, D., & Poli, R. (2021). Neurotechnologies for human cognitive augmentation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.
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