The Touch of the Touching World: Lived Imagery Reweaves Perception 1900 to Today
Image is a concept presented by Bergson as neither a representation closed to the mind nor an object independent of the outside world, but as a form of reality open between the two. The world exists as a totality of images from the beginning, and perception does not create it anew, but only selects the necessary parts according to the action potential of the body. The body is then positioned as a privileged image, and the brain and nervous system are understood not as devices that generate the world, but as filters that select and relay for action. Such a view criticizes both idealism, which recovers perception too much into representation, and realism, which pushes perception too much back to material causes. Idealism loses the resistance and chance of the external world, while realism assumes an extra force of representation generation in matter. By placing imagery in the middle, the difference between perception and matter is explained not as a rupture but as a difference
between the whole and its parts, thus avoiding circular thinking that tries to lead spirit and matter from one to the other. This idea is linked to later phenomenology and theories of the body, and continues to support to this day the viewpoint that rethinks perception as an interaction between the world and the body.
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