What’s Inside Your Head Once You’ve Figured Out What Your Head’s Inside Of
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In this article, we investigate the foundations for a Gibsonian neuroscience. There is an increasingly influential current in neuroscience based on pragmatic and selectionist principles, which we think can contribute to ecological psychology. Starting from ecological psychology, we identify three basic constraints any Gibsonian neuroscience needs to adhere to: nonreconstructive perception, vicarious functioning, and selectionist self-organization. We discuss two previous attempts to integrate affordances with neuroscience: Reed’s ecological rendering of Edelman’s selectionism as well as Dreyfus’ phenomenological interpretation of Freeman’s neurodynamics. Reed and Dreyfus face the problem of how to account for “value.” We then show how the free-energy principle, an increasingly dominant framework in theoretical neuroscience, is rooted in both Freeman’s neurodynamics and Edelman’s selectionism. The free-energy principle accounts for value in terms of selective anticipation. The selection pressures at work on the agent shape its selective sensitivity to the relevant affordances in the environment. By being responsive to the relevant affordances in the environment, an agent comes to have grip on its interactions with the environment and can thrive in its ecological niche.
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Selectionist explanations in ecological psychology comprise variation in action systems, encounter with the environment, and selective retention or amplification based on behavioral success.
“Selectionist explanations in ecological psychology consist of three elements: first, there is variation in animal's action systems.”
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- Authors
- Bruineberg, J., & Rietveld, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Bruineberg, Jelle
- Venue
- Ecological Psychology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2019-07-03
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 198-217
- ISSN
- 1040-7413 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-6969
- OpenAlex
- W2956601432
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 3.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Ecological Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- University of Twente Research Information (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- University of Twente Research Information (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Universiteit van Amsterdam (679190)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Keywords
- affordances, selectionism, free energy principle, neurodynamics, self-organization, values, Edelman, Freeman, Dreyfus, reed
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