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Action-Based Accounts Of Perception By Pierre Jacob Summary

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Pierre Jacob offers an excellent array of perspectives in order to analyze the "scope and limits of action-based approaches to perception" as he notes on page 218 of "Action-based Accounts of Perception." He begins with describing that action-based approaches to perception combine the argument against the computational, or representational, approach and the embodied cognition approach. Throughout the article, Jacob includes many factors to include when deciding how our actions reflect perception, which turns out to be extremely complicated due to how we perceive information and what information we perceive. Having to read that numerous philosophers and researchers thought of perception to be anything short of complicated was surprising. With the basic science, psychology, and philosophy courses that I have taken, I have always been confused on where we go in order to fully understand topics such as perception. From the previous readings and this current one, it appears that we must just slowly chip away at the problem and piece together …show more content…

Beginning with embodied perception, philosophers began with arguing that it included three different aspects - rejecting linguistic model of concepts, accepting that concepts are images encoded in various systems, and that conceptual processing is basically replaying these perceptions with basic perceptual and motor processing. I closely related with the last argument because even though perceptions are typically defined as our sensory receptors reporting to our brain what is being heard, felt, etc., our perceptions are translated into memories where we truly build our experiences. Many artificial intelligence tests demand that cognition include being able to learn (from experiences) and perception is a key factor in that. We learn by utilizing our senses and hearing, seeing, smelling, etc. what is in our

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