"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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