Timo Jarvilehto (1998) How far can Unity of the Organism-environment System be Maintained?
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Psycoloquy 9(83): How far can Unity of the Organism-environment System be Maintained?
HOW FAR CAN UNITY OF THE ORGANISM-ENVIRONMENT SYSTEM BE MAINTAINED?
Reply to Clark and Freeman on Efference-Knowledge
Timo Jarvilehto
Department of Behavioral Sciences
University of Oulu
PB 222, 90571 Oulu
Finland
http://wwwedu.oulu.fi/homepage/tjarvile/indexe.htm
tjarvile@ktk.oulu.fi
Abstract
Clark (1998) and Freeman (1998) regard the principle of
the unity of the organism and environment useful, but both have
some doubts about the scope of its application, presenting examples
which seem to show that it is sometimes necessary to treat organism
and environment separately. Although I agree that situations may
exist that seem better treated by partitioning the organism from
the environment, there are no cogent arguments for such a division
in the cases presented.
Keywords
afference, artificial life, efference, epistemology,
evolution, Gibson, knowledge, motor theory, movement, perception,
receptors, robotics, sensation, sensorimotor systems, situatedness
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