"The idea that our perceptions in the here and now are influenced by prior events and experiences has recently received substantial support and attention from the proponents of the Predictive Processing (PP)... In this paper we look at how perceptual experiences get off the ground from the outset, in utero. One basic yet overlooked aspect of current PP approaches is that human organisms first develop within another human body".

#perceptualexperience #coembodiment

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S105381002100043X?s=09

Very happy to have contributed a chapter to this fine collection on the #PhilosophyOfSmell. In it, I focus on the implications of the #temporalStructure of #olfactoryExperience for the #metaphysics and #philosophy of #olfaction, and #perceptualExperience more generally.

In particular, I argue that some (though not all) objects of olfactory experience are temporally extended. This includes both objective properties of the external environment, e.g. concentration gradients, and interactions between odorants and our sensory apparatus at the receptor level.

This makes olfactory experience observer- or perspective-dependent without rendering it subjective or mind-dependent in any philosophically substantive sense. It also opens up the possibility of an event-based metaphysics of olfactory experience.

Along with the rest of the volume, the chapter can be accessed online here: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003207801.

Many thanks to the editors, Ben Young and Andreas Keller, and other contributors for helpful comments and feedback. I look forward to reading the other chapters!

#newPublication #PhilosophyOfPerception #temporalExperience #theSenses #noxp