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  • 1Department of Philosophy, Nassau Community College, State University of New York (SUNY) Garden City, NY, USA.

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Understanding our world, even novel events, relies on knowing how to act. This involves a self-organizing process using motor imagery to perceive action affordances, leading to conscious understanding.

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  • Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • Humans rapidly understand novel situations by integrating them into existing frameworks.
  • This involves recognizing the event and determining appropriate actions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore the mechanisms of rapid understanding of both familiar and novel environmental events.
  • To define understanding in terms of action and self-organization.

Main Methods:

  • Examining fundamental questions about understanding, consciousness, and self-organization.
  • Proposing a framework where understanding is linked to the organism's need to act.

Main Results:

  • Understanding is defined as knowing how to act relative to environmental elements.
  • The experience of understanding arises from clear perception of action affordances.
  • Motor imagery plays a crucial role in guiding action and conscious understanding.

Conclusions:

  • Conscious understanding is a self-organizing process grounded in action affordances.
  • Day-to-day environmental understanding is a product of this self-organizing mechanism.