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    When animals receive perceptual forms, perception results... — Carmelics
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    When animals receive perceptual forms, perception results; when non-living entities are affected by seemingly the same forms, only non-perceptual alteration occurs.

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    • 1.Animals, unlike non-living entities such as tofu, have the suitable character to perceive
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    • 2.The difference between perception and mere alteration lies in the nature of the patient receiving the form
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    • 1.Thermostats and photoreceptive cells in plants respond differentially to environmental forms in ways functionally analogous to animal perception, per Dretske's informational theory of perception.
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    • 2.If functional sensitivity to environmental information constitutes the relevant criterion, the animal/non-living boundary cannot do the philosophical work Aristotle's hylomorphic account requires.
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    • 3.Without a non-question-begging account of 'suitable character,' the claim reduces to the empirical assertion that only animals perceive, stripping it of genuine explanatory force.
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    • 1.The distinction between 'suitable character' and mere material constitution is explanatorily vacuous without an independent criterion beyond the capacity to perceive itself.
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    • 2.Invoking the nature of the patient to explain perception risks circular reasoning: animals perceive because they have perceptual natures, which are defined by their capacity to perceive.
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    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 4, 415a24–25
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 1, 412b6–9
    AristotleancientDe Anima iii 8, 431b24–30
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 2, 413b12; iii 9, 432b14–433a8; Nicomachean Ethics i 13, 1102b26
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 5, 418a3–6; ii 12, 424a17–21
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 4, 415a20–21; 415b27–28; 416b9–11; 416b20–23
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    AristotleancientDe Anima; De Sensu
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii–iii
    AristotleancientDe Anima; De Partibus Animalium iv 10, 687a24–690a10; Metaphysics xii 10, 1075a16–25
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 5, 417a29, 417b23; iii 4, 429a27; iii 8, 431b29–432a1; Posterior Analytics i 31, 87b37–88a7; Metaphysics xiii 10, 1087a20
    AristotleancientAristotle's hylomorphic theory of perception
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    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 1, 413a3–7
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    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 1, 412a17; ii 2, 414a1–20
    AristotleancientDe Anima ii 4, 415b27–416a20; De Generatione et Corruptione i 5
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    AristotleancientDe Anima i 1; Metaphysics vi 1, xi 7; De Partibus Animalium i 1
    AristotleancientDe Anima i 2, 405b11; i 5, 409b19–24
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    Freudmodernreferenced via Freudian psychoanalysis

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    This much, however, does not explain how perception occurs. Aristotle claims that perception is best understood on the model of hylomorphic change generally: just as a house changes from blue to white when acted upon by the agency of a painter applying paint, so “perception comes about with <an organ’s> being changed and affected … for it seems to be a kind of alteration” (De Anima ii 5, 416b33–34). So in line with his general account of alteration, Aristotle treats perception as a case of
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