Non-representational Sensorimotor Knowledge

The sensorimotor approach argues that in order to perceive one needs to first "master" the relevant sensorimotor contingencies, and then exercise the acquired practical know-how to become "attuned" to the actual and potential contingencies a particular situation entails. But the approach provides no further detail about how this mastery is achieved or what precisely it means to become attuned to a situation. We here present an agent-based model to show how sensorimotor attunement can be understood as a dynamic and non-representational process in which a particular sensorimotor coordination is enacted as a response to a given environmental context, without requiring deliberative action selection.