direct learning

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Editorial synthesis · provisional

Definition

Direct learning is the ecological account of practice moving an agent from less specific information toward more specific, lawfully reliable information about action possibilities. RB2 presents learning as refined attunement and action rather than principally the construction of internal models. The proposed subentry preserves this theoretical emphasis, its self-correcting character and its distinction from effortless or infallible perception.

Explanation

The defining passage links refinement to a tighter fit between perceived and actual affordances. Learning changes what information supports action, so directness does not remove history, exploration or correction. The native reference provides provenance for the claim without constituting an independently repeated experiment or a universally certified learning law.

The adjacent paragraph contrasts Gibsonian tuning with internal model construction. That is the account’s emphasis, not a finding that no neural processing occurs or that all embodied and computational theories share its assumptions. RB2 explicitly presents ecological, enactive and phenomenological interpretations in parallel with distinct philosophical commitments.

Education of attention and calibration specify related changes in cue selection and the match to ability. The infant transition from crawling to walking shows why previously useful judgments may need rebuilding. Thus the proposal retains learning through doing while refusing immediate transfer or a definition that makes every detected opportunity automatically correct.

Scope and attribution

Keep the attributed ecological scope and native citation without resolving the wider theoretical debate.

RB2 — The Real Book, Volume II: Becoming Is Being

Practice refines specifying information within an attributed Gibsonian account.

Occurrence locators: 74.

Background used in the editorial explanation

Direct learning specifically moves toward more specifying information; adjacent calibration is background.