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In this brief and largely pictorial essay I address the divide between perception and action. I review theoretical perspectives on ways in which the divide might be crossed and on ways in which the divide might be dissolved. Some of the ways to either cross or dissolve are traditional, others are recent, and some, importantly for our present purposes, are fundamentally dynamical.
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Turvey, M.T. (2004). Impredicativity, Dynamics, and the Perception-Action Divide. In: Jirsa, V.K., Kelso, J.A.S. (eds) Coordination Dynamics: Issues and Trends. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39676-5_1
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