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 >As Alva Noë, one of the main proponents of enactive and embodied cognition, has argued, _all_ objects of perception are too complex to be observed as a whole and all at once. He draws our attention to the simple act of looking at a tomato. From whatever angle you observe, a side of it is always occluded. This is why the body, in its motor function, has such an important role to play in perception. The hidden side of the tomato is experienced as potentially available to perception because it is possible to move the eyes, the head, and the whole body, in order to view this other side. He notes, “My emphasis here is on a special kind of understanding that distinctly overwrites our _perceptual_ access to objects and properties, namely sensorimotor understanding.”[[3]](https://contempaesthetics.org/2020/07/16/urban-kinaesthetics/#_edn3) The proprioceptive sense of the body in motion and locomotion is an inherent component of visual experience, including the experience of the city. While the city as an object of perception might at first appear problematic because we cannot obtain a panoptic perspective of it, it becomes, in fact, a paradigmatic object of perception, if we adopt the view that all perception is necessarily embodied and that it presupposes sensorimotor engagement, that is, it requires some kind of motion (eye or head movement) or locomotion (walking from A to B) to be actualized.
 
+>Cognition is necessarily _embedded_ in the environment the organism interacts with, and much of the meaning produced, for instance, in visual perception is only to be understood from complex engagements with the structures of the organism’s surroundings. It is _enactive_ in the sense that meanings have to be teased out in a skillful manner. Also, it is _extended_ in the sense that tools or features of the environment often amplify or enable perception in the first place.
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 - [Bertolt Brecht 1935 Questions From a Worker Who Reads](https://www.marxists.org/archive/brecht/works/1935/questions.htm)
 - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210505-how-cities-will-fossilise
 - [[incubation.concepts.cities.invisible.design]]