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A perceptual theory of knowledge: Specifying some details

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Aaro Toomela
Aaro Toomela
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia EE 50410 toomela@psych.ut.ee
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Abstract

We attempt to resolve some details of Barsalou's theory. (1) The mechanism that guides selection of perceptual information may be the efferent control of activity. (2) Information about a world that is not accessible to the senses can be constructed in the process of semiotic mediation. (3) Introspection may not be a kind of perception; rather, semiotically mediated information processing might be necessary for the emergence of introspection.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 633 - 634
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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