Imagination, ecologized and enacted: driven by the historicity of affordance competition.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2024 Caroline Stankozi 2 citations
Imagination can be explained as driven by affordance competition, integrating ecological psychology and enactivism. Affordances are directly perceptible on the ecological view and co-created on the enactive view, and these views are compatible. Empirical evidence supports the historicity of affordance competition, interpreted non-representationally. A stand-off between competing affordances can be resolved by imagination, driven by affordance competition. Sensorimotor traces of previous interactions, such as strengthened synapses, can be repurposed as representations, grounding representational explanations in an ecologized enactive framework.