This course on the perception (1964-1965) is a rigorous program, based on a suspicion can only draw a history of philosophical systems if the history of the notion of perception becomes.
In this sense, Simondon takes up the first intuition of the Ionian physiologists, for whom "the perception was the main mode of knowing the world." From there the branches that are lost and gather, to get lost again and meet again with this first vision are crossed. So even divergent paths are drawn in the ancient world between Ionians and platonic-Pythagoreans, with an Aristotelian middle path, and a second level with Epicureanism and stoicism. Then in the classical period, with the opposition between rationalism (Descartes and his offspring) and empiricism (Locke, Berkeley and Hume), and the middle way now embodied by Kant. Finally, in modern times, where perception and thought from research and scientific theories, especially psycho-physiological, and are in the theory of intuition Bergson a novel link between materialism and spiritualism.
But Simondon not content to review the way in which philosophers discussed the question of perception, but in subsequent chapters of this course is devoted to study the cognitive function in the various beings in nature, with beautiful passages on perception in plants and animals, then concentrate all its rigor on paths links between perception and information, collecting their psychological effects, in the chapters devoted to the perception of the movent, form, space and duration. Everything will end in a very original study on the way in which the perception affectivity and the actual field of human, technological activity is linked.
In sum, then this path, which deserves special attention the intimate relationship and problematic both between perception and sensation, could Nomás prolong and say that for Simondon, can only draw the history of life if history is made the notion of perception.