... integrating conation and affect, cognition is driven by, on the one hand, the agent’s current needs and motivation and, on the other, the contingent, contextual elements that support immediate action. ... cognition and dynamic systems apply to cognition to do with art. ey argue that the production and consumption of art, like any other human activity, is an embodied practice based in perception and ... is tested and interpreted both practically and thematically. Art is also the principal method for, on the one hand, understanding, and, on the other hand, constructing the self, and man in general....