[...] I am skeptical of the idea that perception proceeds, as it were, from the retinal image to the perceived world. According to the enactive view, we do not construct the world from the retinal image, we encounter it in our active exploration making use of our understanding of patterns of sensorimotor contingency. Perception is not a process of constructing an internal image, so it seems implausible that pictures depict by producing the sort of representation in us that the depicted scene would produce. [...] It is not pictures as objects of perception, that can teach us about perceiving; rather, it is making pictures — that is, the skillful construction of pictures — that can illuminate experience. Making pictures is a way ofenacting experience.
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