NeuroAI Seminar #4: The Relational Mirror: Perception, Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence - Amit Zoran

​What can AI teach us about how humans perceive, construct meaning, and experience reality?

​Artificial intelligence is often discussed in terms of capability, automation, or reasoning. This talk approaches AI from a different perspective: as an epistemic mirror that reveals fundamental structures of human perception and reality construction. Drawing on human computer interaction, ecological psychology, predictive perception, and phenomenology, I examine how perception emerges through interaction with environments, tools, cultural systems, and increasingly, artificial agents.

​Alongside computational systems, the seminar explores ecological forms of perception grounded in direct engagement with natural environments, particularly forests. Rather than treating technological and ecological perception as opposites, I argue that the contrast between AI mediated interaction and embodied ecological immersion offers a productive framework for rethinking perception, meaning, and human experience in the age of intelligent systems.