Adrian Frazier

@pafrazier.bsky.social

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Adrian Frazier (he/him). Theoretical psychologist. Bickhardo-Gibsonian. Website: http://ecointeractivism.com Music: http://dobotomy.bandcamp.com

A tattoo on my right forearm that says "Paste Baba" in the Devanagari script.

An exerpt from Bickhard: "Interactive information extraction and affordances were the culminations of Gibson's major moves away from his early ecological direct encoding. Although we later argue that those moves were nontrivially incomplete, nevertheless they
transcended that early encoding model by constructing an intrinsically interactive model of perception. Essentially, Gibson started with ecological direct encoding, then filled in the detection-differentiation-identification process, the process of 'transducing' the encodings, with so much interactive activity—extraction, resonance, pickup, affordance—so as to make it clear that whatever ultimate perceptual encoding, if any, occurred it was not primary nor necessary nor independent, but, rather, subsidiary to interactive extraction. Gibson's basic insight was that it is possible to derive information about an environment from interactions with that environment without encoding anything from that environment."