Exploring World of Perception

According to Merleau-Ponty, perception has an active dimension, in that it is a primordial openness to the life world. When our gaze travels around the space and over what lies before us, at every moment we are forced to adopt a certain point of view. Space is no longer of simultaneous objects capable of being apprehended by an absolute observer who is equally close to them all, without a point of view and a body and without spatial position. Jean Paulhan remarked that, space in which we too are located, it is close to us and we are organically connected.