Ludger Van Dijk

Information without content: a Gibsonian reply to enactivists' worries.

Cognition 2015 Ludger Van Dijk, Rob Withagen, Raoul M Bongers 65 citations

In this article, we aim to strengthen the emerging radical, non-representational, approaches to cognitive science by defusing the worries radical enactivists have with the use of information in the ecological approaches - namely the worry that information carries content. We show that Gibson's later use of the concept is meant to allow for a content-less notion of information, but that the...