Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.33765/thate.12.3.1
ECOLOGICAL PERCEPTUAL HOLISM – UNITY OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN PERCEPTION
Ivančica Slunjski
; University of Zadar, Faculty of Humanities, Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
In the second half of the 20th century, ecological theory of perception presented a new concept of perception according to which it is not a one-sided process within the perceiver, in the form of representation and interpretation of sensory data obtained from the environment, but a process within direct and continuous interaction between the percipient and the environment. Opposing the almost intuitive acceptance of numerous dualities based on the traditionally accepted separation of subject and object, ecological theory introduces an innovative concept of affordance. At about the same time, the initial ideas of an equally innovative theory of the organism-environment system arise, and in this paper they are connected in the context of the interpretation of perception. The goal of the paper is to present the concept of affordance and point out its affinity with the theory of the unity of organism and environment, as well as the need for further introduction of similar theoretical concepts, and with this intention, the concept of ecological perceptual holism is proposed.
Keywords
perception; affordance; organism-environment system; ecological perceptual holism
Hrčak ID:
277863
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Publication date:
23.5.2022.
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