Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2014, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3): 99-104.

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The Ecological Information Based on Specification and Implications for Epistemology

WANG Yi1,FAN Niannian2   

  1. 1. Center of STS, School of Humanities & Law, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China; 2. State Key Laboratory of Hydraulics and lMountain River Engineering, College of Water Resource & Hydropower,Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
  • Online:2014-09-20 Published:2014-10-07
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  • About author:1WANG Yi,2FAN Niannian

Abstract: The ecological approach to perception which was created by American Psychologist James J. Gibson is an alternative to the cognitive science based on representationalism. Its contributions to the psychological research comprise the theory of information generated by the specific relation between energies arrays and physical reality. To be physically specific, the kinematic patterns in energy arrays (light array, sound array, inertial array) are the consequences of the dynamics of the physical reality, this implies that, the kinematic patterns can be analyzed by dynamics and are available to the potential perceiving agents and overall construct a alternative scientific method for researching the information exploratory behavior of the given perceptual agents.

Key words: ecological approach, specification, energy, information, dynamics