The Multimodal Experience of Acting

old_uid15581
titleThe Multimodal Experience of Acting
start_date2015/05/04
schedule17h30-19h
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summaryI reflect on two components typically present in the experience of action, and on how they relate to each other. The first component I call the experience of trying. This is an experience as of directing effort towards the satisfaction of an intention. I argue this component is non-perceptual, in a way proprietarily actional, and typically veridical – the agent’s experience as of directing effort typically is the agent’s directing effort. The second component consists of the range of perceptual experiences on has while acting. I focus on two perceptual modalities – vision and proprioception. I raise a question about how the experience of trying relates to these perceptual experiences in action, and I argue for the view that the experience of acting is (at the very least) a temporally extended, co-conscious collection of agentive and perceptual experiences, functionally integrated and structured both by multimodal perceptual processing as well as by what an agent is, at the time, trying to do.
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