Um estudo epistemológico do Self não conceitual no contexto informacional da Filosofia Ecológica

Abstract

The ecological information is regarded as essential to understanding the dynamics of the processes that rules the life. In the context of the dynamism of these processes, it is our focus in this thesis to investigate the relationship between information, direct perception, affordance and non-conceptual Self. We focus our study of the non-conceptual Self in researchings about perception in the context of ecological philosophy that is expressed by gibsonian anti-representationalism as well as in the field of embodied embedded cognition theory. In this context, the problem that drives our researching in this thesis is to define what is the non-conceptual Self in ecological context and to analyse, by a case study, the relationship between social affordances and tattoos as part of the study of the non-conceptual Self. It is our working hypothesis that the epistemological-informational study of the perception can contribute to researchings on the non-conceptual Self with regard to the actions of embodied embedded agents. In this context, we try to understand how the nonconceptual Self can be changed by the information that emerges from the social affordances expressed in tattoos.