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Skill theory v2.0

dispositions, emulation, and spatial perception

Rick Grush

pp. 389-416

Abstract

An attempt is made to defend a general approach to the spatial content of perception, an approach according to which perception is imbued with spatial content in virtue of certain kinds of connections between perceiving organism’s sensory input and its behavioral output. The most important aspect of the defense involves clearly distinguishing two kinds of perceptuo-behavioral skills—the formation of dispositions, and a capacity for emulation. The former, the formation of dispositions, is argued to by the central pivot of spatial content. I provide a neural information processing interpretation of what these dispositions amount to, and describe how dispositions, so understood, are an obvious implementation of Gareth Evans’ proposal on the topic. Furthermore, I describe what sorts of contribution are made by emulation mechanisms, and I also describe exactly how the emulation framework differs from similar but distinct notions with which it is often unhelpfully confused, such as sensorimotor contingencies and forward models.

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Published in:

Hohwy Jakob (2007) Functional integration and the mind. Synthese 159 (3).

Pages: 389-416

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9236-z

Full citation:

Grush Rick (2007) „Skill theory v2.0: dispositions, emulation, and spatial perception“. Synthese 159 (3), 389–416.