Action in Perception by Alva Nöe
"Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noe. "It is something we do." In Action in Perception,
Noe argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on
capacities for action and thought-that perception is a kind of
thoughtful activity. Touch, not vision, should be our model for
perception. Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of
skillful activity of the body as a whole. We enact our perceptual
experience.To perceive, according to this enactive approach to
perception, is not merely to have sensations; it is to have sensations
that we understand. In Action in Perception, Noe investigates the forms
this understanding can take. He begins by arguing, on both
phenomenological and empirical grounds, that the content of perception
is not like the content of a picture; the world is not given to
consciousness all at once but is gained gradually by active inquiry and
exploration. Noe then argues that perceptual experience acquires content
thanks to our possession and exercise of practical bodily knowledge,
and examines, among other topics, the problems posed by spatial content
and the experience of color. He considers the perspectival aspect of the
representational content of experience and assesses the place of
thought and understanding in experience. Finally, he explores the
implications of the enactive approach for our understanding of the
neuroscience of perception.
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