possibilitiesperceptual
Possibilitiesperceptual is a term used in cognitive science and philosophy of perception to describe the landscape of perceptual possibilities available to an agent under a given set of sensory capabilities and environmental conditions. It denotes the set of perceptual states that could plausibly be experienced, including ordinary percepts, variations due to sampling, noise, attention, learning, and context, as well as byproducts such as illusions or ambiguous interpretations. The concept emphasizes that perception is not a single fixed input-output mapping but a structured space shaped by the organism’s sensory apparatus and processing.
Origin and usage: While not universally adopted as a standard term, possibilitiesperceptual has appeared in discussions
In practice, researchers describe the possibilitiesperceptual as multidimensional and context-sensitive. Dimensionality may reflect modalities (vision, audition,
Limitations and critique: The notion is informal and difficult to quantify; operational definitions require specification of
See also: perception, sensorimotor contingencies, perceptual psychology, artificial perception, predictive processing.