Thought, including conscious perception, is representation. But perceptual representation is uniquely direct, permitting immediate acquaintance with the world and ensuring perception's distinctive phenomenal character . The perceptive mind is extended . It recruits the very objects perceived to constitute self-referential representations determinative of what it is like to perceive.
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Thought, including conscious perception, is representation. But perceptual representation is uniquely direct, permitting immediate acquaintance with the world and ensuring perception's distinctive phenomenal character . The perceptive mind is extended . It recruits the very objects perceived to constitute self-referential representations determinative of what it is like to perceive.
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