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System Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception, Volume 126 (Hardcover)
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System Theories and A Priori Aspects of Perception, Volume 126 (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Psychology
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This book takes as a starting point, John Dewey's article, "The
Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," in which Dewey was calling for,
in short, the utilisation of systems theories within psychology,
theories of behaviour that capture its nature as a vastly-complex
dynamic coordination of nested coordinations. This line of research
was neglected as American psychology migrated towards behaviourism,
where perception came to be thought of as being both a neural
response to an external stimulus and a mediating neural stimulus
leading to, or causing a muscular response. As such, perception
becomes a question of how it is the perceiver creates neural
representations of the physical world. Gestalt psychology, on the
other hand, focused on perception itself, utilising the term
Phenomenological Field; a term that elegantly nests perception and
the organism within their respective, as well as relative, levels
of organisation. With the development of servo-mechanisms during
the second world war, systems theory began to take on momentum
within psychology, and then in the 1970s William T Powers brought
the notion of servo-control to perception in his book, "Behavior:
The Control of Perception." Since then, scientists have come to see
nature not as linear chain of contingent cause-effect
relationships, but rather, as a non linear, unpredictable nesting
of self referential, emergent coordinations, best described as
Chaos theory. The implications for perception are astounding, while
maintaining the double-aspect nature of perception espoused by the
Gestalt psychologists. In short, system theories model perception
within the context of a functioning organism, so that objects of
experience come to be seen as scale-dependent,
psychophysically-neutral, phenomenological transformations of
energy structures, the dynamics of which are the result of
evolution, and therefore, "a priori" to the individual case. This
"a priori," homological unity among brain perception and world is
revealed through the use of systems theories and represents the
thrust of this book. All the authors are applying some sort of
systems theory to the psychology of perception. However, unlike
Dewey we have close to a century of technology we can bring to bear
upon the issue. This book should be seen as a collection of such
efforts.
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