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298. Perception: Chaos and Order | Dr. Karl Friston

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Domain of Affordance

The optimal simple explanation is the least complex affordance necessary for the operation at hand. Gibson who wrote an ecological approach to visual perception talked a lot about affordances, tools and obstacles in particular if I remember correctly. But I'm wondering as well is it is the domain of affordance? It's tool those things that you can get a grip on the world with and move forward towards a desired goal. Obstacles, so things that get in your way of different size and then pathways and the pathways in some places are littered with tools and obstacles.

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