Steps toward an enactive account of synesthesia.

نویسنده

  • Tom Froese
چکیده

Seth extends predictive processing with counterfactuals: Encoded probabilities of what would occur given a repertoire of possible (but unexecuted) actions. He thereby provides a neat mathematical formulation of the sensorimotor account of perceptual presence, i.e., of the fact that we perceive a whole object while being limited to seeing it from a perspective. Synesthetic concurrents are explained in terms of impoverished counterfactuals. I argue that this explanation misses its target, because it only accounts for a lack of objecthood. Enactive theory is better suited to explain concurrents' lack of subjectivity veridicality. The world itself shapes experience only during veridical perception.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cognitive neuroscience

دوره 5 2  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014