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Distinguishing volumetric content from perceptual presence within a predictive processing framework
1Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Abstract:
I argue for an overlooked distinction between perceptual presence and volumetric content, and flesh it out in terms of predictive processing. Within the predictive processing framework we can distinguish between agent-active and object-active expectations. The former expectations account for perceptual presence, while the latter account for volumetric content. I then support this position with reference to how experiences of presence are created by virtual reality technologies, and end by reflecting on what this means for the relationship between sensorimotor enactivism and predictive processing.
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