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Published on: April 15, 2014
Predictive processing, perceptual presence, and sensorimotor theory
J Kevin O'Regan1, Jan Degenaar
1a Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS UMR 8158 , Université Paris Descartes , Paris , France.
Abstract:
Mastery of sensorimotor contingencies can be viewed as attunement to potentialities. In our view, these potentialities have wider application than recognized in Seth's account of sensory presence, and should pertain to all of sensory experience. Instead of appealing only to a notion of counterfactual richness, we propose that the degree of sensory presence can be further specified in terms of bodiliness, insubordinateness, and grabbiness. While PPSMC can provide a possible implementation of a sensorimotor account of synesthesia, we suggest it should be rid of its representationalist interpretation.
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