TL;DR
The paper introduces the concept of subjective physics, describing how an organism perceives and understands the world through sensory signals and actions, akin to a physicist studying the universe.
Contribution
It proposes the framework of subjective physics, focusing on laws governing sensory signals and actions from an organism's perceptual perspective, with illustrative examples.
Findings
Conceptual foundation of subjective physics
Illustrative examples of sensory-action laws
Framework for understanding perception-driven physics
Abstract
Imagine a naive organism who does not know anything about the world. It can capture signals through its sensors and it can make actions. What kind of knowledge about the world is accessible to the organism? This situation is analog to that of a physicist trying to understand the world through observations and experiments. In the same way as physics describes the laws of the world obtained in this way by the scientist, I propose to name subjective physics the description of the laws that govern sensory signals and their relationships with actions, as observed from the perspective of the perceptual system of the organism. In this text, I present the main concepts of subjective physics, illustrated with concrete examples.
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Taxonomy
TopicsEmbodied and Extended Cognition · Cognitive Science and Education Research