I have been struggling to understand this stuff for some time now. Specifically, I am struggling to understand IP and direct perception. Direct perception mentions that perception leads directly to action, and this action is based on "attunement" after repeated exposure in the environment. This seems to be at a higher level of abstraction than IP. For example, couldn't the "modifying a standard version of a stored technique" in IP theory be a hypothesis for the underlying mechanism of "attunement" in the direct perception theory? I guess I don't understand how IP and Direct perception can be compared since they seem to be at totally different levels of abstraction to me. Can you let me know where I am going wrong in my understanding here?
Direct perception is not an abstraction at all, at least not the function being described by the label. The environment is physically structured such that you can immediately perceive what actions you can take. It's almost like fitting a key into a lock.
With information processing, everything has to be structured and assigned meaning before it becomes usable to the motor planning part of the CNS. This data is made usable by an internal model, which is actually an abstraction.
This is right up there with the clearest and succinct overviews of ecological dynamics that I've come across in several months of digging aroind.
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I have been struggling to understand this stuff for some time now. Specifically, I am struggling to understand IP and direct perception. Direct perception mentions that perception leads directly to action, and this action is based on "attunement" after repeated exposure in the environment. This seems to be at a higher level of abstraction than IP. For example, couldn't the "modifying a standard version of a stored technique" in IP theory be a hypothesis for the underlying mechanism of "attunement" in the direct perception theory? I guess I don't understand how IP and Direct perception can be compared since they seem to be at totally different levels of abstraction to me. Can you let me know where I am going wrong in my understanding here?
Direct perception is not an abstraction at all, at least not the function being described by the label. The environment is physically structured such that you can immediately perceive what actions you can take. It's almost like fitting a key into a lock.
With information processing, everything has to be structured and assigned meaning before it becomes usable to the motor planning part of the CNS. This data is made usable by an internal model, which is actually an abstraction.
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Thanks so much for this kind note!
Well articlulated as usual Josh.
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An informative and interesting read that clarified my understanding of specifying information.
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