John Vervaeke ~ Active Inference Insights 003 ~ Relevance Realisation, Predictive Processing, Flow
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The importance of Gibsonian affordances in understanding the world
The understanding of affordances plays a significant role in perceiving the world, highlighting that affordances are possibilities for action granted by the environment. This perspective emphasizes that what we perceive in the world is not merely a feature list of objects but rather fundamentally grasping affordances. The concept suggests that affordances are not inherent in the object or the organism but arise from the fitted relation between them, such as the grippability of a glass being a result of the interaction between the hand and the object.
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