(paywalled) The sensorimotor theory of phenomenal consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... "a way of reconceptualizing the notion of qualia so that the experienced quality of phenomenal experiences can be given objective, third-person characterization"; #qualia #perception

The sensorimotor theory of phe...
"The idea is to say that having an experience consists in a person cognitively accessing the objective, sensorimotor laws that govern their skillful engagement with the world, their bodies or their minds."
"The approach is empirically oriented, elucidating the phenomena of change blindness, sensory substitution, illusions of ownership, color naming and unique hues."
It has been a while (I had to look it up!) since I met Kevin O'Regan after he invited me to give a talk at a workshop in Paris back in April 2002.
It is the main invariants of natural human vision that The vOICe sensory substitution for the blind aims to preserve and convey through sound www.seeingwithsound.com/extra/ecvp20... Localisation, form recognition and emergence of sensation in sensory substitution (PDF, ECVP 2003)

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