Sensorimotor enactivism and temporal experience
Adaptive Behavior June 1, 2013 David Silverman 7 citations
Perceptual experience depends not just on internal brain representations but on active bodily exploration of the environment, according to the sensorimotor approach. A challenge to this view is explaining how we experience temporal duration, since event-like properties cannot be captured by reference to sensory changes from possible movements. This paper argues that emphasizing the temporally extended, interactive nature of perception—more than the original account does—can meet this challenge. It further contends that an extensionalist account of temporal experience, which treats duration as directly perceived, can help make sense of object experience as inherently temporal.