GUARDIAN OF THE VALLEY

Standard conceptions of how the environment influences the person are constrained by the dominant view of representation - and, therefore, perception, cognition, and language - as fundamentally consisting of encodings. I argue that this encoding view is logically incoherent. An alternative view of representation is presented, interactivism, and shown to avoid the incoherencies of encodingism. The interactivist model of representation provides accounts for standard presumed encoding phenomena, and highlights processes and forms of influence of the environment on the person that are obscure or entirely absent from the encoding account. The multiplicity and complexity of the processes of environmental influence acquire a theoretically coherent organisation and development from within the interactive perspective.
Mark H. Bickhard Abstract

WHO NEEDS THE GOBBLEDEGOOK WHEN WERE SURROUNDED BY NATURE AT ITS FINEST, COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT WHEN ALL THE BRICKS & MOTER HAVE TURNED INTO DUST THAT THESE FINE ROCKS WILL STILL STAND AS A GUARDIAN OVER THE WHARFE VALLEY.