How Sensory Substitute:The Myth of Super Conquering Neuroplastic Subjects
Sensory substitution employs a specific sensory channel to convey environmental information typically gathered by another sense.Firstly,the realization of sensory substitution breaks through the traditional sense-based modality taxonomy and proposes more flexible criteria for individualizing perception.Secondly,contemporary anti-neurocentric methodologies,anti-functional views of perception,and the enactivist approach to cognition challenge substitution with neural reductions as an underlying logic in various dimensions.Finally,current sensory substitution relies technically on the fundamentals of neuroplasticity in the brain,is conceptually influenced by neurobiologically dominated criteria of individualization,and ontologically implies the myth of the"neuroplastic subject".Therefore,it is crucial to reflect on and go beyond the limits of this technology,rediscovering the significance of perception in the interactive network of brain-body-environment-evolution-society.