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Perception, philosophy: perceptions are conscious or unconscious processings of changes of state or events in the environment or within a living organism. Perceptions are happening in the present. Memories and imaginations are not perceptions. In language usage the expression of perception is used both for the process of perception and for the perceived. See also stimuli, sensations, sense perceptions, computation, memory, ideas.
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Humberto Maturana on Perception - Dictionary of Arguments

I 120
Perception/Maturana: is described by an observer as the acquisition of any property of the environment. - As if the organism was able to calculate the adequacy.
>Adequacy
, >Observation/Maturana, >Objectivity/Maturana.
But as there are no instructive interactions (see I 103: determined by the other system) that is both misleading metaphorical, as well as operationally wrong.
>Operation/Maturana.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Maturana I
Umberto Maturana
Biologie der Realität Frankfurt 2000


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