Hello David,
You express a common idea here very clearly:
>Affordances in Gibson’s usage are, as it were, hard wired, built in to the
way we relate to the environment. Don metaphorically *extends the idea into
the realm of learned ways of dealing with the environment*, a totally
different way of reacting to the environment.
I offer this quote from Gibson to suggest that Gibson's conception of
affordances always involved learning -- or attunement -- to the environment:
"The simplest affordances, as food, for example, or as a predatory enemy,
may well be detected without learning by the young of some animals, *but in
general learning is all-important for this kind of perception*." (Gibson,
1966)
I've prepared a document with a link to Gibson's 1966 book, more quotes and
some commentary. (The document is open for commenting, if you have reached
your thread limit)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XGcwOJSPm-rsOeQQKXX6Ig_5IeyTgTMz8ESdkk4qAeQ/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you,
Derek
> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 15:03:47 +1000
> From: David Sless <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: On the translation of the word "affordance."
>
> Hi Derek,
>
> I have already exhausted my thread limit on the issue of affordances, but
> I will make just a few brief observations. Affordances in Gibson’s usage
> are, as it were, hard wired, built in to the way we relate to the
> environment. Don metaphorically extends the idea into the realm of learned
> ways of dealing with the environment, a totally different way of reacting
> to the environment. This is the point at which semiotics comes in, and
> this, sadly is the point at which I stop, because it would take me a very
> long post to explain the real differences at work. As I said in an earlier
> post, we are just completing a book on the subject.
>
> Warm greetings from behind my face mask, sanitised keyboard, and hands.
>
> David
>
> Please delete the long thread tail on your posts to the list.
>
>
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