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    J.J. Gibson's ecological psychology shows perception is a... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We must distinguish between perceiving that p (which entails p is true) and perceptual seemings (where p might be false)

    J.J. Gibson's ecological psychology shows perception is a direct pickup of affordances, making the seeming/perceiving distinction theoretically idle.

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    • 1.Affordances are directly specified in ambient energy arrays, requiring no intervening mental representation or interpretation stage.
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    • 2.Seeming/perceiving distinction presupposes a representational gap that ecological psychology empirically dissolves through direct coupling.
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    • 3.Organisms successfully navigate without internal models of 'how things seem'—behavior tracks objective affordance structure directly.
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    • 1.Illusions, hallucinations, and perceptual learning show information pickup alone cannot explain perception without appeal to seeming.
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    • 2.The seeming/perceiving distinction captures a real phenomenological difference that direct realism about affordances doesn't eliminate.
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    • 3.Even if affordances are directly available, their *detection* requires selectional processes that constitute a form of seeming.
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