BI 152 Michael L. Anderson: After Phrenology: Neural Reuse
Brain Inspired
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The View of Direct Perception
Gibson: We can decode based on the two dimensional retinal activations, right? You can't decode. That's the thing you need to decode. And so there was a whole kerfuffle like, oh my gosh, it's upside down. How do we turn it right side up again? Yeah. But Gibson just rejects all that and he says, look, first of all, there's no retinal image. Furthermore, there'sno poverty of the stimulus, right? Think about it from the standpoint of what he calls ecological optics or ecological physics. There's sufficient information in the optic array to allow you to coordinate your behavior with respect to the environment. It
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