Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 03:15:18 To: Digest recipients<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Mind's Eye Digest for [email protected] - 2 updates in 1 topic
============================================================================= Today's topic summary ============================================================================= Group: [email protected] Url: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!forum/minds-eye/topics - Perception as action [2 Updates] http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/t/a6e6dd925f12db57 ============================================================================= Topic: Perception as action Url: http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/t/a6e6dd925f12db57 ============================================================================= ---------- 1 of 2 ---------- From: archytas <[email protected]> Date: Oct 03 07:34AM -0700 Url: http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/msg/2ab5f2131b3c387d Enactive theories of imagery may be seen as modern successors to the *motor theories* of the early twentieth century. They depend the idea that *perception* is not mere passive receptivity (or even receptivity plus inner processing), but a form of action, something *done* by the organism. The literature is legion. The perceiving organism is not merely registering but exploring and *asking questions* of its environment, actively and intentionally (though not necessarily with conscious volition) seeking out the answers in the sensory stimuli that surround it. Imagery is then experienced when someone persists in acting out the seeking of some particular information even though they cannot reasonably expect it to be there. We have imagery of, say, a cat, when we go through (some of) the motions of looking at something and determining that it is a cat, even though there is no cat (and perhaps nothing relevant at all) there to be seen. Visually imagining a cat is seeing nothing-in-particular *as* a cat. I'd have a bet that Facil could sketch my cat, a fluffy black and white ball of haughty 'evil' with claws and purring schemer leading me and two dogs a merry dance of Salome to get a midnight feast share. ---------- 2 of 2 ---------- From: archytas <[email protected]> Date: Oct 03 05:33PM -0700 Url: http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye/msg/feb0333fb85465c1 This photograph looks rather mundane. It has been widely posted under the title 'Why America is not prepared for an ebola outbreak'. The rolled up sleeves on the hasmat suit being the cue. On Friday, 3 October 2014 15:34:28 UTC+1, archytas wrote: -- You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page: https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!forum/minds-eye/join . To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to [email protected]. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
