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• Lecture 24: Perceiving "How to Get About Among Things" (Turvey, 2019, Lectures o...

  This chapter focuses on the perception side of the perception-action system we will end up with for behaviour. It covers the objects of perception (affordances)... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 23: Ecological Optics Primer (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  The 'barrage of conceptual details that was Lecture 22' has provided us with the notion of affordances, and these are to be the objects of both perception and... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 22: Ontology at the Ecological Scale (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  After a book length set of preliminaries, we are finally getting to the meat of the positive case the ecological approach has to make. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 21: Barriers to Ecological Realism (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on Perception)

  Last Lecture Turvey introduced the notion of ecological realism; realism that has a species-dependence to it. Normally a realism is for everyone, but different... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 20: Ecology: The Science That Reasons Why (Turvey, 2019, Lectures on...

  Turvey has finally arrived at the ecological approach, but all the preceding chapters have made it such that there are preliminaries to deal with first. Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 19: Reflections on the Physical Symbol System Hypothesis (Turvey, 2019,...

  The final lecture about the computational-representational perspective is focused on the general claim that intelligent action can arise from a computer,... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 18: Turing Reductionism, Token Physicalism: The Computational System...

  We have encountered the idea in Lectures 6 and 16 that perception might be formalised as a form of computation, and that this might be the step that enables... Read more

  The 19 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Lecture 17: Pattern Recognition and Representation Bearers (Turvey, 2019,...

  Last Lecture Turvey reviewed the basics of the computational approach, and highlighted again how it is just the latest iteration of the Cartesian programme. Read more

  The 15 january 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• CFA: Foundations of Physics, Irvine June 2026

  Foundations of Physics comes to North America for the first time in June 2026, for its 23rd iteration, after conferences spanning three decades held in various... Read more

  The 14 january 2026 by   Wuthrich
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• CFA: At the Edge of Spacetime: Rethinking Singularity Resolution, Geneva, 19-20...

  At the edge of spacetime: rethinking singularity resolutionUniversity of Geneva, May 19-20, 2026This workshop brings together physicists and philosophers of... Read more

  The 13 january 2026 by   Wuthrich
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