Petitot’s sensorimotor perception and morphodynamics of cognition

FUTURE:

Josh — Byron and I can talk with you about the sensorimotor research done by Kevin O’Regan (Why Red Does Not Sound like a Bell).   This should be deeply relevant to rigorous work with whole-body-interfaces like those that you’ve described.   I’d also recommend recent works by Jean Petitot and his students and colleagues that signal a profound jump in sophistication in the study of perception and intentional experience paralleling the leap from classical Newtonian physics of particles to field theory :

Neuromathematics of Vision, ed. Giovanna Citti, Alessandro Sarti

Jean Petitot, Cognitive Morphodynamics: Dynamical Morphological Models of Constituency in Perception and Syntax


To the extent that Pavan’s students develop more grip on some of the relevant differential geometry, we may explore ways to artistically and experientially and computationally exploit this emerging paradigm.   This will be a long term project.

There are implications for Chris Roberts’ interest in “semiotics” —  but the Oz not Kansas versions of semiotics!