Umweltraume and Multisensory Integration. Mirror Perspectives on the Subject-Object Dichotomy

作者：Hope Jonathan^*

来源：Biosemiotics, 2010, 3(1): 93-105.

DOI：10.1007/s12304-009-9067-z

• Umweltraume
• Multisensory integration
• von Uexkull
• Biosemiotics
• Knowledge
• Perception

This paper concerns epistemic developments in the field of sensory perception. I argue that Uexkull's concept of the Umweltraume and certain principles of multisensory integration explain and describe in similar terms the manner in which different sensory modalities interact. Indeed, they both concern knowledge, describing in spatial terms how the mind makes itself up, makes up its objects, and how the objects, in turn, make up the mind. My intention is to set side by side these two trends of thought in order to mutually explain them. I suggest that there is some sort of dialectic at work between the Umweltraume and multisensory integration: in the first case interaction between the senses results in the creation of high definition subjects, whereas in the latter the interaction of the senses results in high definition objects.

• 出版日期2010-4