tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post7433933787581527199..comments2024-03-09T09:06:35.288+00:00Comments on Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists: Is Direct Perception Plausible? Ecological InformationAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16732977871048876430noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-33282077138849808702021-12-03T18:21:43.530+00:002021-12-03T18:21:43.530+00:00"When they do, that interaction is governed b..."When they do, that interaction is governed by ecological scale laws of physics that mean, for example, that a given affordance will produce one and only one pattern in the media, and it will always produce that pattern."<br /><br />In engineering terms, the senses are transducers. They convert one form of energy into another. A microphone transduces mechanical energy (i.e. sound waves) into electromagnetic energy. The ear drum transduces sound waves into bioelectric energy. The ear is not "metaphorically" like a microphone - it is an analog of a microphone - or the other way around - the microphone is an analog of an ear. This holds true across all sense modalities.<br /><br />I think this is a good way of grounding the "law" you mention above. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9192597712746432631.post-33652715906512629462021-11-14T10:29:33.230+00:002021-11-14T10:29:33.230+00:00I tried to write a comment in here but it ended up...I tried to write a comment in here but it ended up being too long, so I expanded it into a blog post: https://metaphorhacker.net/2021/11/world-as-a-directly-meaningful-place-a-comment-on-ecological-psychology-and-the-richness-of-human-experience/<br /><br />The thrust of the argument: Yes, I agree that the direct perception model is useful. In fact, I prefer it to the alternatives, but we still need an account of rich mental representations to account for much of our experience of the world in its social and mental context. I give some specific examples, I'd like to have a more plausible account for from ecological psychology.Dominik Lukešhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071876778771965740noreply@blogger.com