Perceiving affordances and the problem of visually indiscernible kinds.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2024 Mette Kristine Hansen 2 citations
We can sometimes perceptually experience what objects afford—what they offer us—when we encounter natural or artificial objects that belong to high-level kinds, such as lemons. This view explains how we visually experience objects as belonging to categories like 'lemon' and has advantages over alternative accounts. A problem for other views is that when two objects look identical but belong to different high-level kinds (e.g., a real lemon and a lemon-shaped soap bar), it is counterintuitive to say the experience is a perceptual mistake. The argument here is that perceiving affordances resolves this puzzle more compellingly than other theories.