What Does the Sensory Apparatus Do When There Is Nothing to Perceive? The Salience of Sensory Absence

• Authors: Kobos, Katarzyna

Abstracts

EN

This study aims to bring out the explanatory potential of embodied predictionism versus passive feed-forward model of sensory stimulation in the pursuit of a parsimonious naturalist account of sensation as a salient feature and an end point of conscious experience. Theoretical approaches towards sensory experience are tested against specific scenarios of the absence of observable or palpable qualities including but not limited to the thought-experimental phenomenon of negative synesthesia at the conclusion of the argument. . Predictionism is first explored in its own right only to be found insufficient to do justice to the actual mechanism behind full-blown immediate perception. A case is made for the soundness of predictionism reconciled with the doctrine of embodiment.

Keywords

EN

embodied predictionism; representation; embodiment; sensory deprivation; absence of sensory stimuli; sensory perception

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 38 (3)

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Kobos, Katarzyna

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24142