Reexamining Enactivism
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In Action in Perception and “Experience without the Head,” Alva Noë argues that what is perceived emerges as one actively moves about in the environment. Moreover, the role of action is directly relevant for perceptual content, as it is enacted into existence. Noë’s goal is to develop an account of perceptual experience that supports an externalism in which perceptual experience does not need to be explained in terms of the brain, but includes external processes (Block, 2005; Hurley, 1998; Noë, 2004). He refers to this account as the “sensorimotor account of perception” (2004). More specifically for Noë, sensorimotor contingencies lead to an acquisition of sensorimotor knowledge. Sensorimotor knowledge is an intuitive knowledge that underwrites a perceiver’s understanding of how movement affects changes in sensation (O’Regan and Noë, Visual; Noë, 2004). Noë admits that he lacks a clear articulation of the precise nature of sensorimotor contingencies, which undercuts the adequacy of his model. Sensorimotor contingencies and sensorimotor knowledge require a causal
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