Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: I consider the ontology of the "objects" of immediate visual awareness.The ethological account is due to Jakob von Uexküll, from whom I borrow the term "mirror world".His account is essentially behavioristic, thus fails to cross the bridge to phenomenology.Yet, von Uexküll came perhaps as close as possible.Erwin Schrödinger's psychophysical bridging proposition establishes this connection.Jason Walter Brown's account of psychogenesis, based on a lifelong study of mental disorders, fits in seamlessly.From an algorithmic perspective it is "analysis by synthesis".This inherently intentional "guessing" strategy for the acquisition of knowledge was proposed by Whitman Richards.Visual awareness is a "user interface", its objects properly called "Gestalts".It is intentional, yet grounded in biology.I attempt to broadly sketch an ontology of this "mirror world".
Source: Lirias
Author: Jan J. Koenderink
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2521286142