Lecture 15: Gestaltism III: Experience error, CNS error, Psych-neural Isomorphism, Behavioural Environment (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

The two previous lectures reviewed some of the changes happening in related fields to psychology that were showing up in Gestalt psychology, specifically the notion of fields, the understanding that behaviour could emerge from dynamical processes, and the limits on mechanical approaches to living systems. This chapter finally actually engages with Gestalt psychology, and discusses how it was applying these changes.

Lecture 14: Gestaltism II: Fields, Self-Organization, and the Invariance Postulate of Evolution (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

In the previous Lecture, Turvey discussed the machine metaphor in which things are just equal to the sum of their parts. In this Lecture, Turvey introduces the Gestalt notion that wholes are different from the sum of their parts. Well, specifically, he discusses the notions of fields and self-organisation, and the kinds of physical systems that these entail; Gestalt psychology is mostly just a launching pad for the broader discussion.