A. Berthoz . Y. Christen
Editors

2009

How Living Beings Perceive the World

At the beginning of the 20th century, German biologist Jakob von Uexk¨ull created the concept of Umwelt to denote the environment as experienced by a subject. This concept of environment differs from the idea of passive surroundings and is defined not just by physical surroundings, but rather is a “subjective universe”, a space weighted with meaning.