Affordances are features of the environment
Affordances are directly perceived higher-order properties of things in the environment—eg water affords swimming and floating, foods afford eating etc. They're envrionmental factors that an organism directly "picks-up" in order to maintain itself.
Affordances aren't representations used as guides.

James Gibson (1977 & 1979)
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Artificial Intelligence »Artificial Intelligence
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Can computers think? [1] »Can computers think? [1]
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Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3] »Yes: physical symbol systems can think [3]
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The Representationalist Assumption »The Representationalist Assumption
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The representational tradition is flawed »The representational tradition is flawed
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The Situated Action Paradigm »The Situated Action Paradigm
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Affordances are features of the environment
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Affordances are just symbolic representations »Affordances are just symbolic representations
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Affordances are trivial »Affordances are trivial
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