- Organisms are sensimotor systems

- The things in the world come in contact with our sensory surfaces and we interact with them
based on what that sensimotor contact affords (Gibson 1979)

Affordance of our sensimotor features is what we CAN do (we cannot do what a bat does with
its sonar sensors, but we can recognize an object if it is far, or close, if it is turned in various
directions) those are called invariance detectors

Categorization is any systematic differential interaction between an autonomous, adaptive

sensimotor system and its world

Everything in nature is a dynamical system, and that means that it changes in time.
This means that the exact same input will not produce the exact same output across time,
every time.

Categorization is not about the same output occurring whenever there is exactly the same input.
Categories are kinds, and categorization occurs when the same output occurs with the same
kind of input (not the EXACT same input).
A different output occurs with a different kind of input, and this is why we say DIFFERENTIAL.