Action In Perception (Representation and Mind): 9780262140881: Medicine & Health Science Books @

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us," writes Alva Noe.

"It is something we do." In Action in Perception, Noe argues that perception and perceptual consciousness depend on capacities for action and thought—that perception is a kind of thoughtful activity.

Touch, not vision, should be our model for perception.

Perception is not a process in the brain, but a kind of skillful activity of the body as a whole.

We enact our perceptual experience.