Abstract:We offer an ecological (Gibsonian) alternative to
cognitive (im)penetrability. Whereas Pylyshyn explains cognitive
(im)penetrability by focusing solely on computations carried out by
the nervous system, according to the ecological approach the perceiver
as a knowing agent influences the entire animal-environmental system:
in the determination of what constitutes the environment
(affordances), what constitutes information, what information
is detected and, thus, what is perceived.
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