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Sensorimotor agency

Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Buhrmann, Thomas, Barandiaran, Xabier E.·2017·Oxford Scholarship Online

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An enactive sensorimotor approach to perception places the agent at the center of the engagements that constitute a perceptual act. The notion of agency required, however, cannot be based solely on an organism’s biological well-being. Interests beyond mere survival guide many activities that animals with rich sensorimotor lives engage in. It is proposed that the processes that individuate a sensorimotor agent are the very acts that it performs, and that a network of precarious but mutually stabilizing sensorimotor schemes can satisfy the conditions of agency. Compatibility is demonstrated with dynamical approaches to behavioral development, as well as with psychological theories that support the view of a networked behavioral organization. The interdependence of agency at the organismic, sensorimotor, and social levels is discussed, as well as the relevance of sensorimotor agency, to understand the inherent meaningfulness of perception for the perceiver, as well as her subjectivity.

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Authors
Di Paolo, E. A., Buhrmann, T., & Barandiaran, X. E.
Venue
Oxford Scholarship Online
Published
2017-06-22
OpenAlex
W4238196312
Cited by
69
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0
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0.89
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book
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en
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closed
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Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
enactive perception, agency, dynamical systems theory, behavioral development, social agency, subjectivity, animal behavior

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