PaID: Chapter 1, The Third Sense of Environment (Baggs & Chemero, 2019)

Perception as Information Detection: Reflection on Gibson's Ecological Approach to Visual Perception is a series of 16 chapters building upon and updating the 16 original chapters in Gibson's 1979 book The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. In this first chapter, we take a look at Baggs and Chemero's (2019) argument for a finer-grained distinction of the world than what Gibson proposed. They point out some enduring debates within the ecological circle and how they might be resolved with this proposed distinction. The chapter ends with some implications of this on the scope of ecological theory and on practical interventions to real-world problems.