Alva Noë

I have a hunch that Alva Noë really knows what he's talking about. I should probably read his book Action in Perception, where he makes the claim (maybe?) that perception is not established by activating certain parts of the brain, but rather by the "lawful connection of perception and action", which makes a lot of sense. One of the big issues in consciousness, for me at least, is that certain parts of the brain seem to just be associated with certain modalities. But why should vision be visual, how does that part of the brain know that its visual? By an action-type argument, we're able to make a connection between how we act, that is, moving around in the world, or manipulating objects in the world, and how we interpret this, that is vision. Perhaps once this is established, other sensory-substitution type stories will make sense, that is, explain why certain non-visual information, e.g. tongue stimulation will produce visual stimuli. What quality of that information is inherently visual as opposed to inherently auditory? If we glean "visual" information reliably from the environment, does that mean that it will always have a visual quality to it? Hmm.