The Experience of Perception and Its Physical Basis as Views of the Relation Between Perceiver and World Perceived
Title:
The Experience of Perception and Its Physical Basis as Views of the Relation Between Perceiver and World Perceived
Author:
Givner, David A.
Appeared in:
Ecological psychology
Paging:
Volume 4 (1992) nr. 2 pages 97-120
Year:
1992-06-01
Contents:
Gibson's account of the experience of perception is crucial to his theory. There is, accordingly, a need to relate his account of the perceptual experience to the physical conditions that explain perception, that is, the physical basis. I consider the experience of what remains invariant during a self-produced perspective change. This experience is of both object and subject. The corresponding physical basis includes object perceived, the optic array, and perceiver. The perceptual experience and the physical basis are each the relation between perceiver and perceived considered from a different point of view. The relation between the experience and the physical basis, then, is some specific connection between these points of view. That relation is complementarity. For each point of view affords a partial view of the relation between perceiver and perceived. Each view, however, is complemented and made intelligible by its connection with the other point of view.
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