Eating, Perception, Adaptation

Perception can be compared to eating.  Eating can be sequential, as one item after another become present to the eater.  Eating can be negated qua fasting, as an item that becomes presented is resisted.  And, eating can involve combining and cooking several items.  Likewise, Perception can be a Conjunction of sequential data.  It can be negated qua Skepticism, as a datum is rejected.  And, it can be the product of Synthesis, in which data are not merely conjoined, but organized and combined.  Whereas the first type of meal is an Adaptation-To an Environment by an Organism, and the second a detachment from an Environment, the third combines both Adaptation-To and Adaptation-Of.  In other words, the latter exemplifies an Ecological concept of the Organism-Environment relation, i. e. an interaction.  Likewise, Kant's contrast of Synthesis to Hume's Conjunction and Skepticism can be interpreted as briefly nascent Ecologism.